The DNS Tab

The DNS Tab

You use the DNS tab, shown in Figure 3.8, to add, edit, or remove DNS server addresses and adjust the order in which they will be queried. You also have quite a bit of granularity with how you can control the use of DNS suffixes, which refer to the part of FQDNs that should be used when you’re trying to resolve a name to an IP address and the entered name alone does not produce a match. Dynamic DNS settings are adjusted in this tab as well.
You know from earlier in this chapter that an FQDN consists of the name of the host followed by the domain name. For example, if the name of the local computer is wallaby and the domain is sybex.com, the FQDN is wallaby.sybex.com.