HP ProCurve Management And Configuration Manual page 638

Troubleshooting
Diagnostic Tools
Switch "A" Configured
with DNS Resolver
Domain: pubs.outdoors.com
Figure C-21. Example Network Domain
ProCurve(config)# ip dns server-address 10.28.229.10
ProCurve(config)# ip dns domain-name pubs.outdoors.com
Figure C-22. Configuring Switch "A" in FigureC-21 To Support DNS Resolution
C-54
10.28.192.1
DNS Server for pubs.outdoors.com
10.28.229.10
Host Name for IP address
10.28.229.219 = "docservr"
Configuring switch "A" with the domain name and the IP address of a DNS
server for the domain enables the switch to use host names assigned to IP
addresses in the domain to perform ping and traceroute actions on the devices
in the domain. To summarize:
Entity:
DNS Server IP Address
Domain Name (and Domain Suffix for Hosts in
the Domain)
10.28.229.219 by the
Host Name Assigned to
DNS Server
Fully Qualified Domain Name for the IP address
Used By the Document Server (
Switch IP Address
Document Server IP Address
With the above already configured, the following commands enable ping and
traceroute with the host name docserver to reach the document server at
10.28.229.219.
Router "B"
10.28.192.2
10.28.229.1
Identity:
10.28.229.10
pubs.outdoors.com
docservr
docservr.pubs.outdoors.com
10.28.229.219)
10.28.192.1
10.28.229.219
Document
Server
docservr
(10.28.229.219)