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# TCP/IP Configuration Notebook Online Help

### Configure Name Resolution Services Page

Use the Configure Name Resolution Services page to:

- Specify your host name

- Specify your domain name

- Add, modify, or delete the IP addresses of your domain name server

- Add, modify, or delete the IP addresses of domain name servers in your search path.

The hostname value is stored in the CONFIG.SYS file; all other values are stored in the RESOLV2 file.

The fields and selections on this page are:

This Computer's Host Name

  Specify a name for this host that is to be part of a fully-qualified host name. A fully-qualified host name includes both host and domain names, as follows:

      poe.eng.mit.edu

  The host name is poe and the domain name is eng.mit.edu.

Local Domain Name

  Specify the domain where your host resides, including all subdomains and the root domain, separated by periods.

  As an alternative, you can specify domains to be searched in the LAN Domain SearchList list box. Do not specify both a local domain name and domains to be searched (if you do, the LAN Domain Search List will be used).

Name Server Addresses list box

  This list contains the internet addresses (dotted-decimal IP addresses) of servers that resolve domain names to IP addresses. You can specify up to three domain name servers.

  Select this list box and use the push buttons on this page to add, change, or delete domain name server addresses (dotted-decimal IP addresses).

LAN Domain Search List

  This list contains the names of domains to be searched when a request is made using only a host name. A domain search list will override the domain keyword if both are configured. You can specify up to three domains to be searched.

  Select this list box and use the push buttons on this page to add, change, or delete domains in the search list.

The push buttons on this page are:

Add
  Insert a new entry into the selected list box.

  - When you select any entry in the Name Server Addresses list box and click Add, the Name Server Entry window appears.

    The fields on this window are:

    Name Server Address

      Specify the IP address of the server to be used to resolve domain names to IP addresses.

  - When you select any entry in the LAN Domain SearchList list box and click Add, the LAN Domain Entry window appears.

    The fields on this window are:

    LAN Domain

      Specify the domain (in text form only) to be searched when a request is made using only a host name.

  Additional push buttons for these windows are:

  OK
    Close the window and save any changes.

  Cancel
    Close the window and discard any changes.

  Help
    Get help information for this notebook page.

Change
  Modify the highlighted entry in the list box.

  - When you select an entry in the Name Server Addresses list box and click Change, the Name Server Entry window appears.

    The fields you can change from this window are:

    Name Server Address

      Specify the IP address of the server to be used to resolve domain names to IP addresses.

  - When you select an entry in the LAN Domain Search List list box and click Change, the LAN Domain Entry window appears.

    The fields you can change from this window are:

    LAN Domain

      Specify the domain to be searched when a request is made using only a host name.

  Additional push buttons for these windows are:

  OK
    Close the window and save any changes.

  Cancel
    Close the window and discard any changes.

  Help
    Get help information for this notebook page.

Delete
  Erase the list box entry you selected, which will be displayed in a Delete window. You cannot modify the displayed entry; click OK to delete it, or Cancel to close the window without deleting.

Undo
  Remove any changes made since you last accessed this page.

OK
  Close the TCP/IP Configuration Notebook and save all changes made since opening it.

Cancel
  Close the TCP/IP Configuration Notebook and discard any changes made since opening it.

Help
  Get help information for this notebook page.

The subtabs on this page are:

Name Resolution
  Go to the Configure Name Resolution Services page.

Hosts
  Go to the Configure Hosts Information page.

How Do I?

For a step-by-step description of key tasks you can do from this page, go to:

- Configuring Name Resolution Services

- Specifying or Changing the Computer's Host Name

- Specifying or Changing the Computer's Local Domain Name

- Adding a Name Server Address

- Changing a Name Server Address

- Deleting a Name Server Address

- Adding a LAN Domain to the Search List

- Changing a LAN Domain in the Search List

- Deleting a LAN Domain from the Search List

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