Enabling Dns - Cisco AJ732A - MDS 9134 Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

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Enabling DNS

DNS offers services to map a host name to an IP address in the network through a DNS server. When
you configure DNS on the switch, you can substitute the host name for the IP address with all IP
commands, such as ping, telnet, upload, and download.
You must decide to use DNS completely or to use IP addresses fully in your fabric. A combination of
these will not work with the Cisco SME feature.
If you chose to use DNS, the following requirements apply:
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If you choose to use IP addresses, the DNS server should not be configured on any switch in the fabric
and the use_ip flag in the smeserver.properties must be set to TRUE.
For information on configuring DNS, refer to the "Configuring IP Services" chapter in the Cisco MDS
9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide.
To verify that DNS is enabled everywhere in the cluster, ping between the Fabric Manager server and
the MDS switches and also between the MDS switches with DNS names.
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All switches should be configured using DNS.
The domain-name (or the domain list), and the IP name server must be configured to reach remote
switches.
The DNS server should be configured on the Fabric Manager server.
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