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DNS C
ONFIGURATION
When configuring DNS, go to these sections for information you are interested in:
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“DNS Overview” on page 971
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“Configuring the DNS Client” on page 973
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“Configuring the DNS Proxy” on page 974
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“Displaying and Maintaining DNS” on page 974
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“DNS Configuration Examples” on page 975
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“Troubleshooting DNS Configuration” on page 980
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This document only covers IPv4 DNS configurations. For introduction to IPv6 DNS
configurations, refer to “Configuring IPv6 DNS” on page 515.
DNS Overview
Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database used by TCP/IP applications
to translate domain names into corresponding IP addresses. With DNS, you can
use easy-to-remember domain names in some applications and let the DNS server
translate them into correct IP addresses.
There are two types of DNS services, static and dynamic. After a user specifies a
name, the device checks the local static name resolution table for an IP address. If
no IP address is available, it contacts the DNS server for dynamic name resolution,
which takes more time than static name resolution. Therefore, some frequently
queried name-to-IP address mappings are stored in the local static name resolution
table to improve efficiency.
Static Domain Name
Resolution
The static domain name resolution means setting up mappings between domain
names and IP addresses. IP addresses of the corresponding domain names can be
found in the static domain resolution table when you use applications such as
telnet.
Dynamic Domain Name
Resolution
Resolving procedure
Dynamic domain name resolution is implemented by querying the DNS server. The
resolution procedure is as follows:
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A user program sends a name query to the resolver of the DNS client.
2
The DNS resolver looks up the local domain name cache for a match. If a match is
found, it sends the corresponding IP address back. If not, it sends a query to the
DNS server.
3
The DNS server looks up the corresponding IP address of the domain name in its
DNS database. If no match is found, it sends a query to a higher level DNS server.
This process continues until a result, whether successful or not, is returned.
Summary of Contents for 4800G Series
Page 26: ...26 CHAPTER NETWORKING APPLICATIONS ...
Page 30: ...30 CHAPTER 1 LOGGING IN TO AN ETHERNET SWITCH ...
Page 62: ...62 CHAPTER 3 LOGGING IN THROUGH TELNET ...
Page 70: ...70 CHAPTER 5 LOGGING IN THROUGH WEB BASED NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ...
Page 72: ...72 CHAPTER 6 LOGGING IN THROUGH NMS ...
Page 82: ...82 CHAPTER 8 CONTROLLING LOGIN USERS ...
Page 98: ...98 CHAPTER 9 VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 108: ...108 CHAPTER 10 VOICE VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 119: ...GVRP Configuration Examples 119 DeviceB display vlan dynamic No dynamic vlans exist ...
Page 120: ...120 CHAPTER 11 GVRP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 160: ...160 CHAPTER 17 PORT ISOLATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 172: ...172 CHAPTER 19 LINK AGGREGATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 196: ...196 CHAPTER 22 DLDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 240: ...240 CHAPTER 23 MSTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 272: ...272 CHAPTER 27 RIP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 364: ...364 CHAPTER 29 IS IS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 426: ...426 CHAPTER 31 ROUTING POLICY CONFIGURATION ...
Page 442: ...442 CHAPTER 33 IPV6 RIPNG CONFIGURATION ...
Page 466: ...466 CHAPTER 35 IPV6 IS IS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 488: ...488 CHAPTER 36 IPV6 BGP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 498: ...498 CHAPTER 37 ROUTING POLICY CONFIGURATION ...
Page 540: ...540 CHAPTER 40 TUNNELING CONFIGURATION ...
Page 552: ...552 CHAPTER 41 MULTICAST OVERVIEW ...
Page 604: ...604 CHAPTER 43 MLD SNOOPING CONFIGURATION ...
Page 628: ...628 CHAPTER 46 IGMP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 700: ...700 CHAPTER 48 MSDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 812: ...812 CHAPTER 57 DHCP SERVER CONFIGURATION ...
Page 822: ...822 CHAPTER 58 DHCP RELAY AGENT CONFIGURATION ...
Page 834: ...834 CHAPTER 61 BOOTP CLIENT CONFIGURATION ...
Page 850: ...850 CHAPTER 63 IPV4 ACL CONFIGURATION ...
Page 856: ...856 CHAPTER 64 IPV6 ACL CONFIGURATION ...
Page 860: ...860 CHAPTER 65 QOS OVERVIEW ...
Page 868: ...868 CHAPTER 66 TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION TP AND LR CONFIGURATION ...
Page 888: ...888 CHAPTER 69 PRIORITY MAPPING ...
Page 894: ...894 CHAPTER 71 TRAFFIC MIRRORING CONFIGURATION ...
Page 904: ...904 CHAPTER 72 PORT MIRRORING CONFIGURATION ...
Page 930: ...930 CHAPTER 74 UDP HELPER CONFIGURATION ...
Page 990: ...990 CHAPTER 79 FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1000: ...1000 CHAPTER 80 FTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1020: ...1020 CHAPTER 82 INFORMATION CENTER CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1038: ...1038 CHAPTER 84 SYSTEM MAINTAINING AND DEBUGGING ...
Page 1046: ...1046 CHAPTER 85 DEVICE MANAGEMENT ...
Page 1129: ...SSH Client Configuration Examples 1129 SwitchB ...
Page 1130: ...1130 CHAPTER 88 SSH CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1160: ...1160 CHAPTER 90 RRPP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1180: ...1180 CHAPTER 91 PORT SECURITY CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1192: ...1192 CHAPTER 92 LLDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1202: ...1202 CHAPTER 93 POE CONFIGURATION ...
Page 1218: ...1218 CHAPTER 96 HTTPS CONFIGURATION ...