User's Manual

Pepwave MAX and Surf User Manual

http://www.pepwave.com

DNS Proxy Settings

Enable

To enable the DNS proxy feature, check this box, and then set up the feature at

Network>LAN>DNS Proxy Settings. A DNS proxy server can be enabled to

serve DNS requests originating from LAN/PPTP/SpeedFusion

peers. Requests

are forwarded to the DNS servers/resolvers defined for each WAN connection.

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 DNS lookup time. However, it

cannot return the most up-to-date result for those frequently updated DNS

records. By default, DNS Caching is disabled.

Include Google Public

DNS Servers

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

requests to Google's Public DNS Servers, in addition to the DNS servers defined

in each WAN. This could increase the DNS service's availability. This setting is

disabled by default.

Local DNS Records

This table is for defining custom local DNS records. A static local DNS record

consists of a host name and IP address. When looking up the host name from the

LAN to LAN IP of the Pepwave router, the corresponding IP address will be

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

DNS Resolvers

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

at Network>LAN>DNS Proxy Settings>DNS Resolvers. This field specifies

which DNS resolvers will receive forwarded DNS requests. If no WAN/VPN/LAN

DNS resolver is selected, all of the WAN’s DNS resolvers will be selected.

If a SpeedFusion

peer is selected, you may enter the VPN peer’s DNS resolver

IP address(es). Queries will be forwarded to the selected connections’ resolvers. If

all of the selected connections are down, queries will be forwarded to all resolvers

on healthy WAN connections.

- Advanced feature, please click the button on the top right hand corner to activate.

Finally, if needed, configure Bonjour forwarding, Apple’s zero configuration networking