DNS Suffixes

Domain-name system (DNS) suffixes have two primary purposes:

1.When appended to the server appliance host name, (DataSafe NAS name) DNS suffixes comprise the fully-qualified server appliance name.

2.DNS suffixes are used to resolve IP addresses. If your DataSafe NAS is a member of a Microsoft Windows NT 4 domain, a Microsoft Active Directory, or a workgroup, the DNS suffix is dependent upon the domain environment.

The default setting for the local primary DNS suffix is the same as the Active Directory domain name. Changing the DNS suffix will not affect your domain membership, but it can prevent other users from locating your DataSafe NAS on the network. If you rename the primary DNS suffix to something other than the Active Directory domain name, the domain administrator must enable registration of the new full computer name in the Active Directory domain.

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