R0106-HP MSR Router Series Layer 3 - IP Services Configuration Guide(V7)

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Figure 30 Dynamic domain name resolution
Dynamic domain name resolution allows the DNS client to store latest DNS entries in the dynamic
domain name cache. The DNS client does not need to send a request to the DNS server for a repeated
query within the aging time. To make sure the entries from the DNS server are up to date, a DNS entry
is removed when its aging timer expires. The DNS server determines how long a mapping is valid, and
the DNS client obtains the aging information from DNS responses.
DNS suffixes
You can configure a domain name suffix list so that the resolver can use the list to supply the missing part
of an incomplete name.
For example, you can configure com as the suffix for aabbcc.com. The user only needs to enter aabbcc
to obtain the IP address of aabbcc.com because the resolver adds the suffix and delimiter before passing
the name to the DNS server.
The name resolver handles the queries based on the domain names that the user enters:
• If the user enters a domain name without a dot (.) (for example, aabbcc), the resolver considers the
domain name a host name and adds a DNS suffix before performing the query operation. If no
match is found for the domain names with any configured suffix, the resolver uses the user entered
domain name (for example, aabbcc) to query the IP address.
• If the user enters a domain name with a dot (.) among the letters (for example, www.aabbcc), the
resolver directly uses this domain name for the query operation. If the query fails, the resolver adds
a DNS suffix for another query operation.
• If the user enters a domain name with a dot (.) at the end (for example, aabbcc.com.), the resolver
considers the domain name an FQDN and returns the successful or failed query result. The dot at
the end of the domain name is considered a terminating symbol.
The device supports static and dynamic DNS client services.
If an alias is configured for a domain name on the DNS server, the device can resolve the alias into the
IP address of the host.
DNS proxy
As shown in Figure 31, the DNS proxy performs the following operations:
• Forwards the request from the DNS client to the designated DNS server.
• Conveys the reply from the DNS server to the client.
The DNS proxy simplifies network management. When the DNS server address is changed, you can
change the configuration on only the DNS proxy instead of on each DNS client.
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