D-Link DI-1162 manual Host Table

DI-1162 Remote Access Router

♦Lookup Host Table – enable/disables DNS to reference up to eight host names defined in the Host Table shown below.

♦DNS Domain Name – the domain name suffix in which the router resides, to be appended to the host name defined in the host table.

♦Forward DNS queries to – a large server dedicated to resolving domain names on the Internet. This field should contain the IP Address for the DNS closest to you.

♦DNS Cache State – When this item is enabled, the router will add the domain names and IP Addresses it retrieves from DNS queries to it’s own recursive DNS table.

Host Table

The host table allows the router to recognize host names on the network. Up to eight host names can be entered in the table. Your network servers, especially your mail server should be defined here. Leftover places in the table can be assigned to individual hosts to speed up routing.

In the example below, the host name nick is combined with the domain name defined in the DNS Configuration submenu above (in this case, dlink.com) to produce nick.dlink.com. The mapping in the example of nick.dlink.com to the IP Address of 11.1.1.3 is only valid for computers which set the DI-1162 router as their DNS server.

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