User Manual

USER MANUAL

Peplink Balance Series

WINS Server Settings

Enable

Check the box to enable the WINS Server. A list of WINS clients will be displayed

at Status > WINS Clients.

DNS Proxy Settings

Enable

A check box to enable to DNS Proxy feature.

DNS Caching

This field is to enable DNS caching on the built-in DNS proxy server. When the

option is enabled, queried DNS replies will be cached until the records’ TTL has

been reached. This feature can help improve the DNS lookup time by storing all

received DNS results for a faster DNS response time. However, it cannot return

the most updated result for those frequently updated DNS records.

By default, it is disabled.

Use Google DNS

Server as Backup

When this option is enabled, the DNS proxy server will forward DNS requests to

Google's Public DNS Servers in the case if all WAN connections' DNS servers

become unavailable.

By default, it is disabled.

Local DNS

Records

This table is for defining custom local DNS records.

A static local DNS record consists of a Host Name and an IP Address. When

looking up the Host Name from the LAN to LAN IP of Peplink Balance, the

corresponding IP Address will be returned.

Press to create a new record. Press to remove a record.