
6.4.1 Ethernet Configuration
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Modify IP Config
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Static-IP
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(Valid IP Address)
Interface
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Modify IP Config
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Static Subnet Mask
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(Valid Subnet Mask)
Interface
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Modify IP Config
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Static Gateway
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(Valid IP Address)
Interface
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Modify IP Config
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Static Pri DNS
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(Valid IP Address)
Interface
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Modify IP Config
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Static Sec DNS
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(Valid IP Address)
6.4.1.3 DNS Parameters
The parameters discussed in this section exist to facilitate the use of the Domain
Name System (DNS) to connect to the Model 372 using assignable names rather than
cryptic IP addresses. This functionality is provided for convenience only, and is not
critical to the connectivity of the Ethernet interface.
DNS Address:
A Domain Name System (DNS) is a service that translates names into IP
addresses. This service allows for using human readable names for devices on a net-
work. As an example, when a web browser attempts to retrieve the web page at
www.lakeshore.com, the browser first performs a forward-lookup on the assigned
DNS server to attempt to retrieve the IP address that is represented by the name
www.lakeshore.com. If successful, the web browser then uses the retrieved IP address
to communicate with the web server that hosts the website at www.lakeshore.com.
The Model 372 can be configured to communicate with a primary and a secondary
DNS server using the primary DNS address and the secondary DNS address parame-
ters. Multiple DNS servers are sometimes used for redundancy, but multiple servers
are not required, and not all networks provide a DNS server. DNS addresses can be
configured automatically using the DHCP method if the network DHCP server is con-
figured to do so.
Your DHCP server must be configured appropriately to provide DNS server addresses. Not
all DHCP servers provide this functionality on your network.
Hostname:
A hostname is a name that is assigned to a device on a network. On a
Domain Name System (DNS) enabled network, a hostname can be used alone when
connecting from another device on the same domain, or it can be combined with a
domain name to connect to devices outside of the local domain. For example,
www.lakeshore.com refers to the Lake Shore web server on the Internet, which is a
DNS enabled network. The web server hostname is “www”, and it resides on the
domain “lakeshore.com”. To connect to the web server from another device on the
lakeshore.com domain, only the hostname “www” must be used. To connect from any
other domain on the Internet, the entire fully-qualified name, consisting of the host-
name and the domain name (www.lakeshore.com) must be used. Hostnames can
only contain alpha-numeric characters and hyphens, but cannot begin or end with a
hyphen.
A hostname can be assigned by a network administrator, or if the Model 372 is con-
nected to a network with Dynamic DNS (DDNS) capability, a DNS entry is automati-
cally created for it using the Preferred Hostname and Preferred Domain Name
parameters and the assigned IP address.
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Preferred Hostname
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(Valid Hostname String)