User`s manual

DWS-1008 User’s Manual

D-Link Systems, Inc.

Conguring and Managing IP Interfaces and Services

Conguring and Managing DNS

You can congure an Switch to use a Domain Name Service (DNS) server to resolve

hostnames into their IP addresses. This capability is useful in cases where you specify a

hostname instead of an IP address in a command.

For example, as an alternative to the command ping 192.168.9.1, you can enter the command

ping chris.example.com. When you enter ping chris.example.com, the Switch’s DNS client

queries a DNS server for the IP address that corresponds to the hostname chris.example.

com, then sends the ping request to that IP address.

The Switch’s DNS client is disabled by default. To congure DNS:

• Enable the DNS client.

• Specify the IP addresses of the DNS servers.

• Congure a default domain name for DNS queries.