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Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) Characteristics
Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) Characteristics
Tasks
This section describes how to display and set the access server characteristics for the
Internet domain name system (DNS) to resolve host names into Internet addresses.
You can perform the following tasks:
• Display DNS characteristics.
• Display DNS counters.
• Configure the default name resolution domain.
• Change the time limit.
• Change the retry limit.
• Change the name resolution mode.
• Configure a list of commonly used Internet hosts.
• Configure a list of Internet name servers.
Displaying DNS Characteristics
To display the access server characteristics for the DNS, use the SHOW/LIST
INTERNET NAME RESOLUTION command.
Internet DNS Character Display Example
The following example
shows how to display the characteristics for the Internet DNS:
Local> SHOW INTERNET NAME RESOLUTION
NetBIOS (WINS) Name Resolution:
Primary WINS Server: 16.20.44.55
Secondary WINS Server wins-server-local (from DHCP)
Domain Name Resolution
Domain Name: finance.acme.com (from DHCP)
Resolution Host Limit: 32 Resolution Time Limit: 4
Resolution Mode: Ordered Resolution Retry Limit: 3
Nameservers (Locally configured):
99.99.99.99 Local name.acme.com (from DHCP)