Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Reference Guide

DNS Commands

OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide

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Specify the IP addresses of up to three servers to query on a host lookup.

ip name-server server-address1 [server-address2 [server-address3]]

no ip name-server {server-address1 [server-address2 [server-address3]] | all}

The IP address of the primary DNS server to query for host lookup. This 
is the only address that is required.

The IP address of the secondary DNS server to query for host lookup. 
This server will be queried only if the desired host name or host IP 
address is not located by the primary DNS server. A second IP address 
is optional.

The IP address of the DNS server with the lower priority. This server 
will be queried only if the desired host name or IP address is not located 
by the primary and secondary DNS servers. A third IP address is 
optional.

all 

Removes all configured DNS servers.

N/A

OmniSwitch 6400, 6850, 6855, 9000, 9000E

• Use the no form of this command to remove individual or all DNS servers.

• Configuration of the DNS resolver to resolve any host query requires that you first set the default 

domain name with the ip domain-name command and enable the DNS resolver function with the ip 
domain-lookup command before you specify the IP addresses of the DNS servers by using the ip 
name-server command.

• You can configure up to three IPv4 DNS servers and three IPv6 DNS servers in a switch.

-> ip name-server 189.202.191.14 189.202.191.15 188.255.19.1 

-> ip name-server 10.255.11.66

-> no ip name-server 10.255.11.66

-> no ip name-server all

Release 6.1; command was introduced.