dnsparams (command)

For the component to operate with network devices that use host names instead of IP addresses (such as time servers, SMTP servers, or SNMP servers), you must set the

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component instance as a domain name service, or DNS, client. You can also specify a domain name suffix for the instance to append to the host names of any external devices to which you configure a connection (to create fully qualified domain names).

For some component types (

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and

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), you cannot configure DNS parameters through a web interface, so you must use the CLI and the dnsparams command.

Domain name service (DNS) commands

Use the following commands to display and set the DNS parameters of a component instance, and to set the address of DNS servers and a domain-name suffix, or to reset the instance to factory defaults.

Commands for setting DNS parameters

* Both parameters must be entered at the same time. The command does not append new settings to the existing configuration, but rather overwrites it.

 

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