Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 482)

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To change subnet settings:
1 In Server Settings, click the Network tab.
2 Click DHCP/NetBoot and choose Configure DHCP.
3 Select a subnet address range and click Edit.
4 Make the changes you want.
5 Click Save.
You can click Use Defaults to use the server’s default settings.
Setting DNS Options for a Subnet
You can decide which DNS servers and default domain name a subnet should use. DHCP
service provides this information to the client computers in the subnet.
To set DNS options for a subnet:
1 In Server Settings, click the Network tab.
2 Click DHCP/NetBoot and choose Configure DHCP.
3 Select a subnet address range and click Edit.
4 Click the DNS tab.
5 Enter the IP addresses of the DNS servers you want this subnet to use.
6 Enter the default domain name associated with the subnet, then click Save.
If you click Use Defaults, DHCP service gets DNS information from a DNS lookup that
supplies the domain name and default DNS servers.
Setting NetInfo Options for a Subnet
You can give client computers in a subnet access to the information in NetInfo databases by
“binding” the clients to one or more NetInfo parent servers.
You need to know the file name of the NetInfo database (or NetInfo tag) you want to use and
the IP address of the server that hosts that database (or domain). The NetInfo tag is
“network” if the domain was created using NetInfo Domain Setup.
To set NetInfo options for a subnet:
1 In Server Settings, click the Network tab.
2 Click DHCP/NetBoot and choose Configure DHCP.
3 Select a subnet and click Edit.
4 Click the NetInfo tab.
5 Enter the NetInfo tag of the NetInfo domain for this subnet.