Example Using Dns Names With Ping And Traceroute - ProCurve 6200yl Management And Configuration Manual

Example Using DNS Names with Ping and Traceroute

In the network illustrated in figure 20, the switch at 10.28.192.1 is configured
to use DNS names for ping and traceroute in the pubs.outdoors.com domain.
The DNS server has been configured to assign the host name docservr to the
IP address used by the document server (10.28.229.219).
Switch "A" Configured
with DNS Resolver
10.28.192.1
Domain: pubs.outdoors.com
Figure 20. Example Network Domain
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:
DNS Server for pubs.outdoors.com
10.28.229.10
Host Name for IP address
10.28.229.219 = "docservr"
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
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
Troubleshooting
Diagnostic Tools
Document
Server
docservr
(10.28.229.219)
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