Dns - Ricoh AP410 Network Manual

Monitoring and Configuring the Printer

dns

Use the "dns" command to configure
or display DNS (Domain Name Sys-
tem) settings.
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ View settings
The following command displays
current DNS settings:
msh> dns
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ DNS server configuration
The following command enables
or disables the DNS server ad-
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dress:
msh> dns "number" server
"server address"
The following command displays
a configuration using the IP ad-
dress 192.168.15.16 on a DNS 1
server:
msh> dns 1 server 192.168.
15.16
• You can register up to three
DNS server numbers.
• You cannot use "255.255.255.255"
as the DNS server address.
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Dynamic DNS function setting
msh> dns "interface_name"
ddns {on|off}
• You can set the dynamic DNS
function "active" or "inactive".
• {on} means "active" and {off}
means "inactive".
• ip1394 can be specified only
when the IEEE 1394 interface is
installed.
• wlan can be specified only
when the IEEE 802.11b interface
is installed.
Interface name
ether
ip1394
wlan
88
Interface configured
Ethernet interface
IEEE 1394 interface
IEEE 802.11b interface
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Specifying the record overlap operation
m s h > d n s o v e r l a p { u p -
date|add}
• You can specify operations per-
formed when records overlap.
• update
To delete old records and regis-
ter new records.
• add
To add new records and store
the old records.
• When CNAME overlaps, it is al-
ways changed, irrespective of
settings.
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ CNAME registration
msh> dns cname {on|off}
• You can specify whether to reg-
ister CNAME.
• {on} means "active" and {off}
means "inactive".
• The CNAME registered is the de-
fault name beginning with rnp.
CNAME cannot be changed.
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ A records registration
msh> dns arecord {dhcp|own}
• {dhcp}
You can specify the method of
registering an A record when
the dynamic DNS function is
enabled and DHCP is used.
• {own}
To register an A record using
the printer as the DNS client.
The DNS server address and the
domain name already designat-
ed are used for the registration.
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Record updating interval settings
msh> dns interval "time"
• You can specify the interval after
which records are updated when
using the dynamic DNS function.
• The updating interval is speci-
fied hourly. It can be entered be-
tween 1 and 255 hours.
• The default is 24 hours.