User Manual

Configuring System Information
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M6100 Web Management User Guide
2. Click Cancel to cancel the configuration on the screen and reset the data on the screen to
the latest value of the switch.
3. Click Apply to update the configuration on the switch.
DNS
You can use these pages to configure information about DNS servers the network uses and
how the switch operates as a DNS client.
DNS Configuration
Use this page to configure global DNS settings and DNS server information.
To access this page, click System
 Management  DNS  DNS Configuration.
To configure the global DNS settings:
1. Specify whether to enable or disable the administrative status of the DNS Client.
• Enable -
Allow the switch to send DNS queries to a DNS server to resolve a DNS
domain name. Default value is Enable.
• Disable - Prevent the switch from sending DNS queries.
2. Enter the DNS default domain name to include in DNS queries. When the system is
performing a lookup on an unqualified hostname, this field is provided as the domain name
(for example, if default domain name is netgear
.com and the user enters test, then test is
changed to test.netgear.com to resolve the name). The length of the name should not be
longer than 255 characters.
3. Use Retry Number to specify the number of times to retry sending DNS queries to DNS
server
. This number ranges from 0 to 100. The default value is 2.