HP ProCurve Series 3400cl Release Notes page 42

Enhancements
Release M.08.89 Enhancements
Switch "A" Configured
with DNS Resolver
Domain: pubs.outdoors.com
Figure 5. 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:
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.
ProCurve(config)# ip dns server-address 10.28.229.10
ProCurve(config)# ip dns domain-name pubs.outdoors.com
Figure 6. Configuring Switch "A" in
32
10.28.192.1
DNS Server for pubs.outdoors.com
10.28.229.10
Host Name for IP address
10.28.229.219 = "docservr"
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
Figure 5 To Support DNS Resolution
Router "B"
10.28.192.2
10.28.229.1
Document
Server
docservr
(10.28.229.219)