setnameserver(8)
System Administration 239
■The DNS domain name (set by the sethostname(8) command) and search path
(set by the setnameserver(8) command) together can contain up to 256
characters.
■To change the DNS servers and the DNS search paths in XSCF, execute the
applynetwork(8) command. Then, use the rebootxscf(8) command to reset
XSCF, completing the change.
■The currently set DNS server can be checked by using the shownameserver(8)
command.
EXAMPLES EXAMPLE 1 Adds the hosts with the IP addresses 192.168.1.2, 10.18.108.10, and 10.24.1.2
as DNS server. Names are solved in the order specified.
EXAMPLE 2 Deletes the host with the IP address 10.18.108.10 from the DNS server.
EXAMPLE 3 Deletes the first two DNS servers whose IP addresses are 10.24.1.2. This case
is when a DNS server is listed multiple times.
EXAMPLE 4 Deletes all the DNS servers.
EXAMPLE 5 Registers the domain names search1.com, search2.com, search3.com,
search4.com, and search5.com to the search path.
EXAMPLE 6 Deletes the domain name search5.com from the DNS search path.
XSCF> setnameserver 192.168.1.2 10.18.108.10 10.24.1.2
XSCF> setnameserver -c del 10.18.108.10
XSCF> shownameserver
nameserver 10.24.1.2
nameserver 10.24.1.2
nameserver 10.24.1.2
XSCF> setnameserver -c del 10.24.1.2 10.24.1.2
XSCF> shownameserver
nameserver 10.24.1.2
XSCF> setnameserver -c del -a
XSCF> setnameserver -c addsearch search1.com search2.com
search3.com search4.com search5.com
XSCF> setnameserver -c delsearch search5.com