Friday 26 October 2012

How to find a rogue DHCP server

If your company has a large corporate network shared by many employees, you may have encountered the case where your host machine is getting an IP address assigned by some unknown DHCP server not under the administrative control of the corporate network, which in turn causes various connectivity issues for your host. When a host machine is trying obtain an IP address via DHCP, it accepts whichever DHCP offer message arrives first. Hence, if a rogue DHCP server is interfering with a legitimate DHCP server by sending out DHCP offers of its own, it can cause various networking related problems for connected hosts by supplying them with unreachable default gateway, private IP addresses, bogus DNS resolver, etc.Read more »

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