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DI-1162 Remote Access Router

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Configuration and Management

Lookup Host Table – enable/disables DNS to reference up to eight

host names defined in the Host Table shown below.

DNS Domain Name – the domain name suffix in which the router

resides, to be appended to the host name defined in the host table.

Forward DNS queries to – a large server dedicated to resolving

domain names on the Internet. This field should contain the IP
Address for the DNS closest to you.

DNS Cache State – When this item is enabled, the router will add

the domain names and IP Addresses it retrieves from DNS queries
to it’s own recursive DNS table.

Host Table

The host table allows the router to recognize host names on the
network. Up to eight host names can be entered in the table. Your
network servers, especially your mail server should be defined here.
Leftover places in the table can be assigned to individual hosts to speed
up routing.

In the example below, the host name nick is combined with the domain
name defined in the DNS Configuration submenu above (in this case,
dlink.com) to produce nick.dlink.com. The mapping in the example of
nick.dlink.com to the IP Address of 11.1.1.3 is only valid for
computers which set the DI-1162 router as their DNS server.