The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) uses a client-server structure to provide configuration parameters to hosts. DHCP consists of a protocol for providing host-specific configuration parameters from a DHCP server (or collection of DHCP servers) to a host and a mechanism to allocate network addresses to a host.
When the DHCP server is loaded, it reads its configuration information from NDS and stores the information in its cache. As the DHCP server assigns addresses to clients, it updates NDS, adding IP address objects or modifying their NDS status information. The DHCP server can be configured to maintain an audit log of this activity.
The administrator can use the DNS/DHCP Administration utility to view objects to see how addresses have been assigned.