Advanced – SnapGear 2.0.1 User Manual

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Network Connections

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Advanced

The following figure shows the advanced IP configuration:

Figure 3-8

Hostname

The Hostname is a descriptive name for the CyberGuard SG appliance on the network.

DNS Proxy

The CyberGuard SG appliance can also be configured to run as a Domain Name Server.
The CyberGuard SG appliance acts as a DNS Proxy and passes incoming DNS requests
to the appropriate external DNS server. If this is enabled, all the computers on the LAN
should specify the IP address of the CyberGuard SG appliance as their DNS server.

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