Reference Guide

244 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
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Configure a Method of Hostname Resolution
Dell Networking systems are capable of providing DHCP clients with parameters for two methods of
hostname resolution.
Address Resolution using DNS
A domain is a group of networks. DHCP clients query DNS IP servers when they need to correlate host
names to IP addresses.
Address Resolution using NetBIOS WINS
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) is a name resolution service that Microsoft DHCP clients use
to correlate host names to IP addresses within a group of networks. Microsoft DHCP clients can be one of
four types of NetBIOS nodes: broadcast, peer-to-peer, mixed, or hybrid.
Step Task Command Syntax Command Mode
1 Create a domain.
domain-name name DHCP <POOL>
2 Specify in order of preference the DNS servers that are
available to a DHCP client.
dns-server address
DHCP <POOL>
Step Task Command Syntax Command Mode
1 Specify the NetBIOS Windows Internet Naming
Service (WINS) name servers, in order of preference,
that are available to Microsoft Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) clients.
netbios-name-server address
DHCP <POOL>
2 Specify the NetBIOS node type for a Microsoft
DHCP client. Dell Networking recommends
specifying clients as hybrid.
netbios-node-type type
DHCP <POOL>