Specifications

8-9

TCP/IP Network Characteristics

Conﬁguring the Default Name Resolution Domain

Conﬁguring the default domain name characteristic enables you to abbreviate

Internet host names in commands. To conﬁgure the Default Name Resolution

Domain, use the DEFINE/SET/CHANGE INTERNET NAME RESOLUTION

DOMAIN command.

Conﬁguring and Using Default Name Resolution Domain Example

The following example shows the procedure for and results of conﬁguring the

default name resolution to FINANCE.ACME.COM:

Truncated Responses Number of incomplete (truncated) responses from the

DNS server. This is not necessarily an error condition.

Fail Answers Number of fail answers received. This condition could be

caused by a number of events, including:

1. Unable to ﬁnd a name server to send particular query.

2. Unable to ﬁnd the Internet address of a particular

name server.

3. Sent a query and received more than maximum

amount of responses.

4. Query is trapped in a loop of name servers that refer

to each other.

FORMERR Answers Number of answers received that were either not able to be

decoded or states that DNS did not understand the query.

Duplicate Queries Number of duplicate queries sent where the original query

is on a pending queue to be sent to its destination.

Step Action

1 Deﬁne the default name resolution domain as follows:

Local> CHANGE INTERNET NAME RESOLUTION DOMAIN

FINANCE.ACME.COM

2 Enter the following connect command:

Local> CONNECT SALES

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