Getting an address when you have none yet
Discover, Offer, Request, Ack: why the conversation opens with a broadcast, and why a lost lease presents as a DNS failure.
20 minutesTechnical content last reviewed on 20 Sept 2026
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What this lesson builds
- Choosing and reading a transport
- Deciding whether a destination is a neighbour
- Reading system state without over-reading it