Netgear M4100-50G (GSM7248v2h2) - 46‐port GE + 4 GE Combo L2 Managed Switch User Manual

The default admin user name is admin and the default admin password is blank, that is, 
do not enter a password.

Click the Login button. 

The web management interface menu displays.

Select System 

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 DNS Configuration.

Specify whether to enable or disable the administrative status of the DNS client.

Enable. Allow the switch to send DNS queries to a DNS server to resolve a DNS 
domain name. The default value is Enable.

Disable. Prevent the switch from sending DNS queries.

Enter the DNS default domain name to include in DNS queries. 

When the system is performing a lookup on an unqualified host name, this field is 
provided as the domain name (for example, if the default domain name is netgear.com 
and you enter test, then test is changed to test.netgear.com to resolve the name). The 
length of the name must not be longer than 255 characters.

Use Retry Number to specify the number of times to retry sending DNS queries to the DNS 
server. 

This number ranges from 0 to 100. The default value is 2.

Use Response Timeout (secs) to specify the amount of time, in seconds, to wait for a 
response to a DNS query. 

This time-out ranges from 0 to 3600. The default value is 3.

Specify the Source Interface that is used for DNS. 

Possible values are as follows:

Routing interface

Routing VLAN

Routing loopback interface