Summary

Although it’s not necessary to become an expert on TCP/IP to run a network, some basic knowledge is required. TCP/IP and DNS in particular are worth studying in some depth because so many network difficulties can be traced to the misconfiguration of one or the other. The next chapter covers the administration of the TCP/IP server programs DNS, DHCP, and WINS.

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