DNS & DHCP Services

Domain Name System (DNS)

Please, select one of the following to view detailed information.

Internal and External Views

Depending on your IP address when you query our DNS servers, you could be given different answers. We have defined two views, Internal and External. Answers from the Internal view will be received from anyone with a UF IP address. Any non UF IP address will receive answers from the External view.

Here's a list of what we consider to be UF IP address space:
   10.0.0.0/8
   172.16.0.0/12
   192.168.0.0/16
   128.227.0.0/16
   192.5.2.0/24
   159.178.0.0/16
   8.6.244.0/23
   2620:104::/40

The differing views will allow the removal of private address (RFC1918) resolution from non UF IP addreses and allow different responses to the same query based on a UF versus a non UF resource asking the question. Please note, that as of the migration date both the Internal and External views were virtually identical. As we move forward from the migration date, unless explicitly asked, we are not entering DNS changes or additions to the RFC1918 space in the External view. We will soon announce to the UF community the removal of RFC1918 space from the External view.

DNS settings are set automatically by DHCP

Please, see Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) section below.

DNS server settings

If you currently use ICT Monitoring maintained DNS services your computer should be resolving using these name servers:

128.227.30.254
8.6.245.30

* Although a single IP address, there are multiple servers that can answer your request.

Please note, that if you are currently referencing Active Directory name servers, no changes are needed.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a network application protocol that automates the assignment of IP addresses and network parameters to DHCP-configured network devices (DHCP clients). When a DHCP client connects to a network, it sends a request to obtain an IP address and configuration information from the DHCP server. The DHCP server manages a pool of IP addresses and configuration information such as default gateway, domain name, and DNS server. Depending on the configuration, the DHCP server either assigns or denies an IP address to a client request. It also sends network configuration parameters to the client.

With the migration to Infoblox ICT Monitoring assumed the IP address of the previous DHCP servers.

I run my own DHCP Server

One of the many benefits of the Infoblox platform is the ability to be the primary source for your DNS zones and DHCP scopes but still allow you to make changes. If you no longer want to maintain DNS/DHCP hardware/software and would like to leverage our redundancy in hardware, power and connectivity, please, contact NSM:
ufit-ict-infrastructure-reliability-service@mail.ufl.edu
(352) 392-2061.

If you use the 'option domain-name-servers' statement (option 6) in your DHCP configuration that references any of the ICT Monitoring maintained name servers, please, change to these servers:

128.227.30.254
8.6.245.30
128.227.30.253
128.227.30.252

* Although a single IP address, there are multiple servers that can answer your request.

If you use the 'option time-servers' statement (option 4) in your DHCP configuration, please, see the section below titled "Network Time Protocol (NTP)"