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Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) Characteristics
7-10 TCP/IP Network Characteristics
Configuring the Default Name Resolution Domain
Configuring the default domain name characteristic enables you to abbreviate Internet
host names in commands. To configure the Default Name Resolution Domain, use the
DEFINE/SET/CHANGE INTERNET NAME RESOLUTION DOMAIN command.
Configuring and Using Default Name Resolution Domain Example
Bad Responses Number of bad responses received. A bad response
could be due to:
1)
An unrecognizable response from the DNS
server.
2)
A fail response from the DNS server.
3)
A response indicating that DNS could not
understand the query from the access server.
Truncated Responses Number of incomplete (truncated) responses from
the DNS server. This is not necessarily an error
condition.
Fail Answers Number of fail answers received. This condition
could be caused by a number of events, including:
1)
Unable to find a name server to send particular
query.
2)
Unable to find the Internet address of a
particular name server.
3)
Sent a query and received more than maximum
amount of responses.
4)
Query is trapped in a loop of name servers that
refer to each other.
FORMERR Answers Number of answers received that were either not
able to be decoded or states that DNS did not
understand the query.
Duplicate Queries Number of duplicate queries sent where the original
query is on a pending queue to be sent to its
destination.
Field Description