
Configuring Network Settings
New fields appear, depending on the check boxes you selected.
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resolving of non-fully qualified names. For example, if the domain suffix
n Name
Type a default domain suffix that should be passed to DHCP clients.
The DHCP client will automatically append the domain suffix for the
is set to "mydomain.com", and the client tries to resolve the name
“mail”, the suffix will be automatically appended to the name, resulting
in “mail.mydomain.com”.
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