C613-50631-01 Rev A Command Reference for IE340 Series 933
AlliedWare Plus™ Operating System - Version 5.5.3-0.x
DOMAIN NAME SERVICE (DNS) COMMANDS
IP
DNS FORWARDING DEAD-TIME
ip dns forwarding dead-time
Overview Use this command to set the time period in seconds when the device stops
sending any DNS requests to an unresponsive server and all retries set using ip dns
forwarding retry are used. This time period is the DNS forwarding dead-time. The
device stops sending DNS requests at the DNS forwarding dead-time configured
and when all of the retries are used.
Use the no variant of this command to restore the default DNS forwarding
dead-time value of 3600 seconds.
Syntax
ip dns forwarding dead-time <60-43200>
no ip dns forwarding retry
Default The default time to stop sending DNS requests to an unresponsive server is 3600
seconds.
Mode Global Configuration
Usage notes See the ip dns forwarding retry command used with this command.
Examples To set the DNS forwarding retry count to 50 and to set the DNS forwarding
dead-time to 1800 seconds, use the commands:
awplus# configure terminal
awplus(config)# ip dns forwarding dead-time 1800
awplus(config)# ip dns forwarding retry 50
To reset the DNS retry count to the default of 2 and the DNS forwarding dead-time
to the default of 3600, use the commands:
awplus# configure terminal
awplus(config)# no ip dns forwarding dead-time
awplus(config)# no ip dns forwarding retry
Related
commands
debug ip dns forwarding
ip dns forwarding
ip dns forwarding retry
show ip dns forwarding
show ip dns forwarding server
Parameter Description
<60-43200> Set the DNS forwarding dead-time in seconds. At the dead-time set,
the switch stops sending DNS requests to an unresponsive server.