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Annex Communications Server R7.1B and Annex Host Tools R14.2 Release Notes
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Forwarding Broadcasts
This release adds the Annex parameter ip_forward_broadcast. If this
parameter is set to Y, the Annex forwards Network directed IP
broadcasts to installed interfaces of the same network.
Default Domain
This release adds the keyword domain to the gateways file, and
modifies the output of the CLI hosts command. The new gateways
keyword usage is:
domain search <path> <path...>
This form adds a network domain to the DNS search path. The
given paths are decomposed into higher-level names, and all of
the forms are added. For example, mynet.city.company.com
decomposes into mynet.city.company.com, city.company.com
and company.com. To prevent this, you can quote a portion of the
path that should not be decomposed. For example,
this."that.theother.edu"
decomposes into this.that.theother.edu
and that.theother.edu. When these paths are added, the list is
checked for duplicate entries (case is not significant), and the
duplicates are silently ignored.
domain default <path>
The second form sets the default search path. This path should be
set after all search paths have been added. The Annex will
propagate this path to the top of the search list and remove it from
all of the hosts entries.
The new hosts output is in response to the hosts -n option. In addition
to displaying the name server data, this option now also displays the
default domain and the domain search list contents.
The Annex still does a reverse address query for its domain name,
and if a valid response is received, the Annex overrides the contents
of the gateways file, sets its default domain and adds the decomposed
response to the search list.
