Enabling Dynamic Resolution Of Host Names; Specifying The Local System Domain And A List Of Domains - Dell C9000 Series Networking Configuration Manual

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In a dual stack setup, the system sends both A ( for IPv4 — RFC 1035) and AAAA ( for IPv6 — RFC 3596) record

requests to a DNS server even if you configure only the ip name-server command.

Name server, Domain name, and Domain list are VRF specific. The maximum number of Name servers and

Domain lists per VRF is six.

Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host

By default, dynamic resolution of host names (DNS) is disabled.

To enable DNS, use the following commands.

Enable dynamic resolution of host names.

CONFIGURATION mode

ip domain-lookup

Specify up to six name servers.

CONFIGURATION mode

ip name-server ip-address [ip-address2 ... ip-address6]

The order you entered the servers determines the order of their use.

Example of the show hosts Command

To view current bindings, use the show hosts command.

Dell>show host

Default domain is force10networks.com

Name/address lookup uses domain service

Name servers are not set

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To view the current configuration, use the show running-config resolve command.

Specifying the Local System Domain

and a List of Domains

If you enter a partial domain, the system can search different domains to finish or fully qualify that partial

A fully qualified domain name (FQDN) is any name that is terminated with a period/dot. The system searches

the host table first to resolve the partial domain. The host table contains both statically configured and

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