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M4200 and M4300 Series ProSAFE Managed Switches Web Management User Manual
6. Select the DNS Status Disable or Enable radio button:
• Enable. Allow the switch to send DNS queries to a DNS server to resolve a DNS
domain name. The default value is Enable.
• Disable. Prevent the switch from sending DNS queries.
7. Enter the DNS Default domain Name to include in DNS queries.
When the system is performing a lookup on an unqualified host name, this field is
provides the domain name (for example, if default domain name is netgear.com and the
user enters test, then test is changed to test.netgear.com to resolve the name). The
length of the name must not be longer than 255 characters.
8. Use Retry Number to specify the number of times to retry sending DNS queries to the DNS
server.
This number ranges from 0 to 100. The default value is 2.
9. Use Response Timeout (secs) to specify the amount of time, in seconds, to wait for a
response to a DNS query.
This time-out ranges from 0 to 3600. The default value is 3.
10. Specify the Source Interface to use for DNS.
Possible values are as follows:
• None
• VLAN 1
• Routing interface
• Routing VLAN
• Routing loopback interface
• Tunnel interface
• Service port
By default VLAN 1 is used as the source interface.