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set dial_out
security [
YES
|
NO
]
idle_timeout <
minutes
>
recovery_timeout <
minutes
>
Sets global parameters for all dialout connections over modems.
Parameters Description
security Determines whether to require user name and password
when dialing out. If YES, login authorization is
required. Default:
YES
.
idle_timeout Interval allowed before an idle connection is closed. 0
is no timeout: default (NO) is 5 minutes. If dialout is on
(YES), timeouts derive from user values. Range:
1
minute to 3 hours.
recovery_timeout When a connection is terminated, the time allowed
before session is canceled. This allows a dialout user
time to reconnect, if the phone cord is jarred from the
jack or the PC rebooted, for example.
0 is no timeout, the default is 5 minutes. Range:
1
minute to 3 hours.
set dns
domain_name <
string
>
number_retries <
number
>
timeout <
seconds
>
Sets the global parameters for DNS; both the local DNS hosts (
list DNS host
)
and the remote DNS servers (
list DNS servers
). See table on next page.
Parameters Description
domain_name Default domain designation to be used if no domain is
specified (by
add dns server
) in the name to be resolved.
For example: usr.com. Limit:
64
characters.
number_retries Number of times the resolve name request will be sent to
each Name Server if the server fails to respond to a
request before the timeout period. Default is
1
, valid
range is
1-5
.
timeout Number of seconds to wait before deciding a request to a
Name Server has timed out. Minimum interval and default
is
5
seconds, maximum interval is
120
seconds .