ZyXEL Communications G-2000 Plus User Manual

ZyAIR G-2000 Plus User’s Guide

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Chapter 21 General Setup

Figure 122   Menu 1 General Setup

                             Menu 1 - General Setup

                    System Name= G-2000PLUS
                    Domain Name=

                    First System DNS Server= From ISP
                      IP Address= N/A
                    Second System DNS Server= From ISP
                      IP Address= N/A
                    Third System DNS Server= From ISP
                      IP Address= N/A
                    Edit Dynamic DNS= No

                    Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

 

Fill in the required fields. Refer to the following table for more information about these fields.

Table 84   Menu 1 General Setup

System Name

Choose a descriptive name for identification purposes. It is recommended you 

enter your computer’s “Computer name” in this field. This name can be up to 30 

alphanumeric characters long. Spaces are not allowed, but dashes “-” and 

underscores "_" are accepted.

Domain Name

Enter the domain name (if you know it) here. If you leave this field blank, the 

ISP may assign a domain name via DHCP. You can go to menu 24.8 and type 

"sys domain name" to see the current domain name used by your router.
The domain name entered by you is given priority over the ISP assigned 

domain name. If you want to clear this field just press [SPACE BAR] and then 

[ENTER]. 

First System DNS 

Server
Second System DNS 

Server

Third System DNS 
Server

DNS (Domain Name System) is for mapping a domain name to its 

corresponding IP address and vice versa. The DNS server is extremely 

important because without it, you must know the IP address of a machine 

before you can access it. The ZyAIR uses a system DNS server (in the order 

you specify here) to resolve domain names for VPN, DDNS and the time 

server.
Press [SPACE BAR] and then [ENTER] to select an option. Select From ISP if 

your ISP dynamically assigns DNS server information (and the ZyAIR's WAN 

IP address). The IP Address field below displays the (read-only) DNS server 

IP address that the ISP assigns.
Select User-Defined if you have the IP address of a DNS server. Enter the 

DNS server's IP address in the IP Address field. If you select User-Defined, 

but leave the IP address set to 0.0.0.0, User-Defined changes to None after 

you save your changes. If you set a second choice to User-Defined, and enter 

the same IP address, the second User-Defined changes to None after you 

save your changes.
Select None if you do not want to configure DNS servers. If you do not 

configure a system DNS server, you must use IP addresses when configuring 

VPN, DDNS and the time server.

Edit Dynamic DNS

Press [SPACE BAR] and then [ENTER] to select Yes or No (default). Select 

Yes to configure Menu 1.1: Configure Dynamic DNS discussed next.

When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “Press ENTER to Confirm…” to 

save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.