- Open Network and
Dial-up Connections.
- Right-click the network
connection you want to configure, and then click Properties.
- On the General tab
(for a local area connection) or the Networking tab (all other
connections), click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
- If you want to obtain DNS server addresses from a DHCP
server, click Obtain DNS server address automatically.
- If you want to manually
configure DNS server addresses, click Use the following DNS server
addresses, and in Preferred DNS server and Alternate DNS
server, type the preferred DNS server and alternate DNS server IP
addresses.
- To configure advanced DNS
properties, click Advanced, click the DNS tab, and do one or
more of the following:
- To configure an
additional DNS server IP address:
- Under DNS server
addresses, in order of use, click Add.
- In DNS server,
type the IP address of the DNS server, and then click Add.
- To modify the
resolution behavior for unqualified DNS names, do the following:
- To resolve an
unqualified name by appending the primary DNS suffix and the DNS suffix
of each connection (if configured), click Append primary and
connection specific DNS suffixes. If you also want to search the
parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix up to the second level domain,
select the Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix check
box.
- To resolve an
unqualified name by appending the suffixes from a list of configured
suffixes, click Append these DNS suffixes (in order), and then
click Add to add suffixes to the list.
- To configure a
connection-specific DNS suffix (local area connection only), type the DNS
suffix in DNS suffix for this connection.
- To modify DNS dynamic
update behavior (local area connection only), do the following:
- To use a DNS dynamic
update to register the IP addresses of this connection and the primary
domain name of the computer, select the Register this connection's
addresses in DNS check box. This option is enabled by default. The
primary domain name of the computer is the primary DNS suffix appended
to the computer name and can be viewed as the full computer name on the Network
Identification tab (available in System in Control Panel).
- To use a DNS dynamic
update to register the IP addresses and the connection-specific domain
name of this connection, select the Use this connection's DNS suffix
in DNS registration check box. This option is disabled by default.
The connection-specific domain name of this connection is the DNS suffix
for this connection appended to the computer name.
Notes
- To open Network and Dial-up
Connections, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Network
and Dial-up Connections.
- You must be logged on as an
administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete
this procedure.
- To completely disable DNS
dynamic update for all names on the computer, clear the Register this
connection's addresses in DNS and Use this connection's DNS suffix
in DNS registration check boxes for all connections in Network and
Dial-up Connections.
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