You are the assistant systems manager of your small company’s network, which includes about 200 Windows 7 and Windows 8 workstations and five servers all running Windows Server 2012 R2. All workstations receive their IP assignments from a DHCP server.
It’s Monday and you’ve just arrived for work. You quickly receive word from users from all departments that they cannot connect to the Internet. Their workstations can communicate with each other. You go to your own workstation and find you also cannot access the Internet. You check Event Viewer and receive this message:
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with the network address of 00-0A-E6-AS-6B-03. The IP address being used is 169.254.64.12.
What should you do?
ANSWER: Reboot the DHCP server.