DHCP and DNS

What is the difference between DHCP and DNS

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DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocal. It assings IP addresses to the needed computers in a network dynamically.
 
DNS is Domain Naming System(Service) It is system for naming computers and network services that is organized into a hierarchy of domains. DNS naming is used in TCP/IP networks, such as Internet, to locate computers and services through user friendly names.

fcawad_03

  • Apr 13th, 2008
 

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host control protocols. Actually it manage IP addresses to the computer on network Dynamically. Check for  lease of  IP and if IP expired , checked for availability of IP.

DNS stands for Domain name System. It provides the naming convension to the IP addresses through forward and reverse zone.  

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jmmmm

  • Jul 22nd, 2009
 

DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocal. It assings IP addresses to the needed computers in a network dynamically.

DNS is Domain Naming System(Service) It is system for naming computers and network services that is organized into a hierarchy of domains. DNS naming is used in TCP/IP networks, such as Internet, to locate computers and services through user friendly names.

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Durgesh Pandey

  • Jan 4th, 2012
 

DHCP - DHCP stand for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It provide all TCP/IP configuration automatically to DHCP client.

DNS - It stand for Domain Naming System. It convert IP add to FQDN name and FQDN name to IP add. It has two zone.
1- Forward lookup zone
2- Reverse lookup zone

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bhagare

  • Nov 20th, 2012
 

DHCP Means,Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol,Which Work on DORA Process,Mean ,DISCOVER,OFFER,REQUEST,ASSIGN.
DHCP,is protocol,Which is used to assign a IP address to computer automatically Means Dynamically.We no need to assign IP Address statically to the computer.

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Ravi

  • May 28th, 2013
 

DHCP: is a dynamic host configuration protocol it is used for dynamically and automatically assign the IP address to the client the Port no: 67/68

DNS: Domain naming system it is used for name regulation that is conversion of host name to IP address port no : 53

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Purbita biswas

  • Oct 9th, 2013
 

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and it gives the computer its IP address on the network.
DNS stands for Domain Name Systems and it converts the words www.google.com to its IP address74.125.4.100

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rahul

  • Oct 11th, 2013
 

dhcp means,dynamic host configuration protocol,which works on dora process,which will be used to assign the ip
address dynamically,no need to assign the ip address,statically.
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dns means, domain name system,which is used for conversion,which means name to ip and ip to name.

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Narender singh

  • Jan 2nd, 2015
 

DNS:- it provides us the access to any address or say a website we want to connect:like when we type www.google.com then dns provide us connection to it.
DHCP:-it automatically or Dynamically provides the ip Address

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