Chapter 43 System

Table 233 System > DNS (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Domain Zone

A domain zone is a fully qualified domain name without the host. For example,

 

zyxel.com.tw is the domain zone for the www.zyxel.com.tw fully qualified domain

 

name.

 

A “*” means all domain zones.

 

 

From

This displays whether the DNS server IP address is assigned by the ISP

 

dynamically through a specified interface or configured manually.

 

 

DNS Server

This is the IP address of a DNS server. This field displays N/A if you have the

 

ZyWALL get a DNS server IP address from the ISP dynamically but the specified

 

interface is not active.

 

 

Add icon

Click the Add icon in the heading row to open a screen where you can add a new

 

domain zone forwarder record. Refer to Table 235 on page 675 for information on

 

the fields.

 

Click the Edit icon to go to the screen where you can edit the record.

 

Click the Add icon in an entry to add a record below the current entry.

 

Click the Delete icon to remove an existing record. A window display asking you to

 

confirm that you want to delete the record. Note that subsequent records move up

 

by one when you take this action.

 

Click the Move to N icon to display a field to type a number for where you want to

 

put that record and press [ENTER] to move the record to the number that you

 

typed.

 

 

MX Record (for

A MX (Mail eXchange) record identifies a mail server that handles the mail for a

My FQDN)

particular domain.

 

 

#

This is the index number of the MX record.

 

 

Domain Name

This is the domain name where the mail is destined for.

 

 

IP/FQDN

This is the IP address or fully qualified domain name of a mail server that handles

 

the mail for the domain specified in the field above.

 

 

Add icon

Click the Add icon in the heading row to open a screen where you can add a new

 

MX record. Refer to Table 236 on page 675 for information on the fields.

 

Click the Edit icon to go to the screen where you can edit the record.

 

Click the Delete icon to remove an existing record. A window display asking you to

 

confirm that you want to delete the record. Note that subsequent records move up

 

by one when you take this action.

 

 

Service Control

This specifies from which computers and zones you can send DNS queries to the

 

ZyWALL.

 

 

#

This the index number of the service control rule. The ordering of your rules is

 

important as rules are applied in sequence.

 

The entry with a hyphen (-) instead of a number is the ZyWALL’s (non-configurable)

 

default policy. The ZyWALL applies this to traffic that does not match any other

 

configured rule. It is not an editable rule. To apply other behavior, configure a rule

 

that traffic will match so the ZyWALL will not have to use the default policy.

 

 

Zone

This is the zone on the ZyWALL the user is allowed or denied to access.

 

 

Address

This is the object name of the IP address(es) with which the computer is allowed or

 

denied to send DNS queries.

 

 

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