Planet MH-4000 User Manual page 186

Domain Name: The IP Address isn't suitable for users to memorize and manage. So there's the
Domain to map it. The format of Domain is xx.xx.xx.xx i.e.,
It's more convenient to use the meaningful words as Domain instead of the meaningless IP number.
There are two parts of the address of website, host name and domain name. If the user would like
to browse the website of Yahoo, he may encounter the Yahoo via entering www.yahoo.com in the
browser. As a matter of fact, the Address of Yahoo is 66.218.71.84. MH-4000 provide the DNS
Server to deal with the process of mapping the Domain Name (Yahoo) and IP (66.218.71.84).
Enable: Enable or Disable of the domain.
Configure: Click Modify to make further configuration and Remove to delete the domain.
New Entry: Click New Entry to add new domain.
Add New Domain
Click the New Entry button on Inbound Balance page to add new domain. The following page is shown.
Domain Name: The domain name you applied from your local network information centre.
Enable DNS Zone: Enable the configuration of domain name.
Name: The service name before the Domain Name. For example, www, ftp, mail, etc.
Type: A for Address, CNAME for Canonical NAME and MX for Mail eXchanger.
Address: The IP Address of this server.
Backup: The server whether enable the function of backup or not and the System Administrator could
chose WAN 1/2.
Weight: MH-4000 would distribute the DNS inquiry WAN ports via the weight number. Each number
stands for the round-robin distribution.
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