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D-Link Unified Access System Software User Manual 12/10/09 CONFIGURING DNS You can use these pages to configure information about DNS servers the network uses and how the switch/router operates as a DNS client. GLOBAL CONFIGURATION Use this page to configure global DNS settings and to view DNS client status information. To access this page, click LAN > Administration > DNS Client > Global Configuration. Figure 91: DNS Global Configuration Field Admin Mode Default Domain Name Retry Number Response Timeout Domain List Table 76: DNS Global Configuration Fields Description Select Enable or Disable from the pulldown menu to set the administrative status of DNS Client. The default is Disable. Enter the default domain name for DNS client messages. The name should be no longer than 255 characters. When the system is performing a lookup on an unqualified hostname, this field is provided as the domain name (e.g., if default domain name is .com and the user enters hotmail, then hotmail is changed to hotmail.com to resolve the name). By default, no default domain name is configured in the system. Enter the number of times to retry sending DNS queries. The valid values are from 0 to 100. The default value is 2. Enter the number of seconds to allow a DNS server to respond to a request before issuing a retry. Valid values are 0 to 3600. The default value is 3. Enter a domain list to define the domain to use when performing a lookup on an unqualified hostname. Each name must be no more than 256 characters. Multiple default domain names can be configured using the default domain-name list. If there is no domain list, the default domain name configured is used. • If you change any settings, click Submit to send the information to the router. • To create a new list of domain names, click Create. Then enter a name of the list and click submit. Repeat this step to Page 162 Configuring DNS Document 34CSFP6XXUWS-SWUM100-D7