Dns Configuration - Motorola Solutions WiNG 5.2.6 Reference Manual

5.3.5.1 DNS Configuration

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Profile Network Configuration
Domain Naming System (DNS) DNS is a hierarchical naming system for resources connected to the Internet or a private
network. Primarily, DNS resources translate domain names into IP addresses. If one DNS server doesn't know how to
translate a particular domain name, it asks another one until the correct IP address is returned. DNS enables access to
resources using human friendly notations. DNS converts human friendly domain names into notations used by different
networking equipment for locating resources.
As a resource is accessed (using human-friendly hostnames), it's possible to access the resource even if the underlying
machine friendly notation name changes. Without DNS, in the simplest terms, you would need to remember a series of
numbers (123.123.123.123) instead of an easy to remember domain name (www.domainname.com).
To define the DNS configuration:
1. Select the Configuration tab from the Web UI.
2. Select Devices.
3. Select System Profile
4. Expand the Network
5. Provide a default
6. Set the following DNS configuration data:
Enable Domain
Lookup
from the options on left-hand side of the UI.
menu and select DNS.
Figure 5-23 Network DNS screen
Domain Name used when resolving DNS names. The name cannot exceed 64 characters.
Select the radio button to enable DNS. When enabled, human friendly domain
names can be converted into numerical IP destination addresses. The radio
button is selected by default.
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