Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) Characteristics
Field | Description | |
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Bad Responses | Number of bad responses received. A bad response | |
| could be due to: | |
| 1) | An unrecognizable response from the DNS |
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| server. |
| 2) | A fail response from the DNS server. |
| 3) | A response indicating that DNS could not |
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| understand the query from the access server. |
Truncated Responses | Number of incomplete (truncated) responses from | |
| the DNS server. This is not necessarily an error | |
| condition. | |
Fail Answers | Number of fail answers received. This condition | |
| could be caused by a number of events, including: | |
| 1) | Unable to find a name server to send particular |
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| query. |
| 2) | Unable to find the Internet address of a |
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| particular name server. |
| 3) | Sent a query and received more than maximum |
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| amount of responses. |
| 4) | Query is trapped in a loop of name servers that |
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| refer to each other. |
FORMERR Answers | Number of answers received that were either not | |
| able to be decoded or states that DNS did not | |
| understand the query. | |
Duplicate Queries | Number of duplicate queries sent where the original | |
| query is on a pending queue to be sent to its | |
| destination. | |
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Configuring the default domain name characteristic enables you to abbreviate Internet host names in commands. To configure the Default Name Resolution Domain, use the DEFINE/SET/CHANGE INTERNET NAME RESOLUTION DOMAIN command.
Configuring and Using Default Name Resolution Domain Example