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DataSafe NAS User’s Manual 22
DNS Suffixes
Domain-name system (DNS) suffixes have two primary
purposes:
1. When appended to the server appliance host
name, (DataSafe NAS name) DNS suffixes
comprise the fully-qualified server appliance
name.
2. DNS suffixes are used to resolve IP addresses. If
your DataSafe NAS is a member of a Microsoft
Windows NT 4 domain, a Microsoft Active
Directory, or a workgroup, the DNS suffix is
dependent upon the domain environment.
The default setting for the local primary DNS suffix is
the same as the Active Directory domain name.
Changing the DNS suffix will not affect your domain
membership, but it can prevent other users from
locating your DataSafe NAS on the network. If you
rename the primary DNS suffix to something other
than the Active Directory domain name, the domain
administrator must enable registration of the new full
computer name in the Active Directory domain.