Domain name system settings – Motorola 2200 User Manual

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Domain Name System Settings

Domain Name System (DNS) is an information ser vice for TCP/IP networks that uses a hierarchical
naming system to identify network domains and the hosts associated with them. You can identify a pri-
mar y DNS ser ver and one secondar y ser ver.

Common Commands

set dns domain-name

domain-name

Specifies the default domain name for your network. When an application needs to resolve a host
name, it appends the default domain name to the host name and asks the DNS ser ver if it has an
address for the “fully qualified host name.”

set dns primary-address

ip_address

Specifies the IP address of the primar y DNS name ser ver.

set dns proxy-enable

This allows you to disable the default behavior of acting as a DNS proxy. The default is

on.

set dns secondary-address

ip_address

Specifies the IP address of the secondar y DNS name ser ver. Enter

0.0.0.0

if your network does not

have a secondar y DNS name ser ver.

set dns configured-dns-priority [ 0 - 255 ]

Sets the configured DNS priority relative to acquired DNS. These ser ver addresses may be acquired via
DHCP (client), PPP, or statically configured. A “DNS learned-ser ver-priority” is assigned to each config-
ured inter face. By default, configured DNSes have the highest priority (lowest number), then PPP-
acquired DNSes, and DHCP-acquired DNSes have lowest priority (highest number).

The default priorities for each type are:

❑ Configured DNSes: 10
❑ PPP-acquired: 20
❑ DHCP-acquired: 30

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