{"id":176,"date":"2018-01-19T06:51:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=176"},"modified":"2018-01-19T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:52:10","slug":"dont-squat-on-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2018\/01\/19\/dont-squat-on-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Squat on my Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting, I was checking out my DNS server to make some new static host records for my newly networked Test environment\/sandbox. To my surprise I found these weird new records DHCID (Dynamic Host Configuration Identifier) I wasn&#8217;t sure what was up with these but I did notice them paired along with an A host record (same name, different value). A quick google search revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/previous-versions\/windows\/it-pro\/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008\/dd759188(v=ws.11)\">this nice old MS gem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While it states &#8220;<em>Name squatting<\/em> occurs when a non-Windows-based computer registers in Domain Name System (DNS) with a name that is already registered to a Windows-based computer.&#8221; and even <a href=\"https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/windowsserver\/en-US\/3ca2583d-1912-4129-8406-9b06008d8fc3\/dhcid-record-in-dns-for-domainmember-windows-clients?forum=winserverNIS\">Susie Long pretty much states the same thing from this TechNet Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I found in my case was it was created for only a couple users and it was from their iPhones after I had renewed them with new iPhones and updated their phones by using iTunes to make a backup and copy their contents to their new phones. I&#8217;m assuming cause the same name already existed in DNS from the old phones DHCP request, and the new phone had the same device name after the restore. In my case I knew they weren&#8217;t important records since noone would ever need to access their phones via DNS name, lol. So I simply deleted them. We&#8217;ll see if they come back.<\/p>\n<p>I already knew all about DHCP and DNS scavenging but this was a new one for me. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting, I was checking out my DNS server to make some new static host records for my newly networked Test environment\/sandbox. To my surprise I found these weird new records DHCID (Dynamic Host Configuration Identifier) I wasn&#8217;t sure what was up with these but I did notice them paired along with an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2018\/01\/19\/dont-squat-on-my-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t Squat on my Name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-server-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}