Windows 10: How to change IP Address of Domain Controller

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As an IT administrator, you may be faced with the challenge of how to change the IP address of a Domain Controller on your network. The DC is a mission-critical IT infrastructure, you may be looking for best practices on how you can accomplish this task — this post presents a walkthrough of the process […]

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WS2016 Setup Domain Controller reverts to Auto IP address


Not a power user by any means.

After following the tutorial here:

Windows Server 2016 - Setup Local Domain Controller
....and restarting the server, an error popped up that there is no internet connection. However opening a browser did connect to yahoo.com and a search called up many listings. Clicking on a link produced nothing. Thinking that maybe it might be a bad idea, I allowed Windows to repair the connection after it showed that there was no DHCP connection.

After Windows made this fix, the domain name and, ip addresses. It had reverted back too I "Obtain and IP address automatically".. I suspected this might happen as this is a home network, and the U-Verse router decides what the IP addresses shall be.


Still thinking I did something wrong or left something out of the process.

 

Assigning Static IP Address Range in a Router

All the DDNS does is assign a domain name to the external IP address of the camera, and if your external IP address changed then the DDNS will update the domain name to point to the new IP address.

 

Assigning Static IP Address Range in a Router

Would that require an external (paid) DNS service?