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been offered by a BOOTP server).
If a re-negotiation fails the following dialog box is displayed:
This indicates that in two minutes the AX3000 will be no longer be permitted to
use the leased IP address and the session will be terminated
If after these two minutes, the re-negotiation has still failed, an error box is
displayed and all current sessions (telnet, tty, lpd, etc.) are closed (i.e. lost). And
the terminal is shutdown.
Note : the AX3000 Trace Mode allows a trace of data exchanged between the
AX3000 and the DHCP server (see Chapter 3.1). This is useful to diagnose
problems.
A.4 - THE DNS PROTOCOL
The DNS protocol (Domain Name System) allows names to be 'resolved' by the
AX3000. Resolving is retrieving an IP address associated with a name.
A.4.1 - Overview
A domain (computer network) can be considered as a tree, with branches
(nodes) such as hubs, switches, routers, print servers etc, and leafs, for
example PCs, terminals and printers.
The domain system makes no distinction between the use of interior nodes and
the leafs, and this documentation uses the term "nodes" to refer to both. (I.e.