DNS queries that cannot be resolved in any other way are forwarded to a general DNS server. These can be configured in the following menus or command-line paths:
| LANconfig | |
| CLI |
If a DNS server is specified here, it must be entered as the primary DNS. Optionally, an additional DNS server can be specified as the secondary DNS for redundancy.
- For DNS forwarding, a DNS server that has been assigned to the Internet connection (manually or automatically) is always used first.
- If no DNS server has been assigned to the Internet connection or none of the assigned DNS servers respond, the system falls back to the general DNS server.
With this procedure, you do not need to know the addresses of a DNS server. All you need to do to enable name assignment is to set up each workstation computer with the intranet address of your router as the DNS server. This also automatically updates the DNS server address. For example, should the provider with this address rename their DNS server, or if you switch to another provider, your local network will always receive up-to-date information.
