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80-001113 SysLINK Administrator’s Guide Page 36
If the gateway is configured to use DHCP, it will try to get DNS configuration information
from the DHCP server. You may also manually set up static DNS entries on this page.
Having DNS configured allows you to specify names in place of IP addresses in your
configuration.
The DNS Domain Name is used as the default domain for any names you specify. For
instance, if you specify the name “foo” in the ping command and the domain name
“company.com” in the DNS Domain Name above, the ping command will do a DNS lookup
on the name “foo.company.com”.
The DNS Server IP Addresses are used to specify the addresses of one or more machines that
can be used to resolve names to IP addresses.
The Static Hosts entries are used to define local host name to IP address mappings.