
A-164 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
NAME
DNS - Domain Name System
DESCRIPTION
Domain Name Service provides information about hosts on a network. This ser-
vice has two parts: a resolver which requests information and a nameserver
which provides it.
Data ONTAP 5.3 supports only the resolver. When the filer needs to resolve a
host address, it first looks at the
/etc/nsswitch.conf
(see
nsswitch.conf
) file to
get the order in which various name services are to be consulted. If the name
services before DNS fail in their lookup and DNS is enabled, then the DNS name
server is contacted for address resolution.
DNS can be enabled on the filer by running the
setup
command (see
setup
) or by
manually editing the configuration files as described below. If DNS is enabled by
running the
setup
command, then the DNS domain name needs to be entered.
Enabling
DNS
without
the
setup
command:
1.
Create the
/etc/resolv.conf
file (see
resolv.conf
) with up to 3 nameservers.
Each line contains the keyword
nameserver
followed by the IP address of
the server. For example:
nameserver 192.9.200.1
nameserver 192.9.201.1
nameserver 192.9.202.1
2. Edit the
/etc/rc
file (see
rc
) to make sure that the option specifying the DNS
domain name is set and the option to enable DNS is on. For example:
options dns.domainname company.com
options dns.enable on
3. Reboot the filer for these changes to take effect. If the above options com-
mands are also entered from the console, the reboot can be avoided.
Enabling
DNS
with
the
setup
command:
At setup time, one can choose to enable DNS when prompted to do so.
setup
then queries for the Internet addresses of up to three DNS
nameservers.
SEE ALSO
setup, rc, resolv.conf
DNS
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