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DNS in Cisco networks
- [Instructor] Now that we've covered the basics of DNS, let us now look at DNS in action across various platforms, let us start with DNS in Cisco networks. Network devices such as Cisco routers and switches can be configured to work as DNS forwaders. In fact, DNS is already enabled by default in Cisco IOS. So we can then just configure it statically, so as to let it know the IP address of our server. Here's what I mean. I've got here a simple network via Cisco Modeling Labs whereby we've got a router that is then connected to the outside world through our external connector in here. Let me first go to the router's console. All right, I'll go to the global configuration mode, so that will be en, conf t. To configure or to specify the address of our name server, we just have to enter the command, ip name-server, followed by the IP address. All right, so on my end, I'll type in, ip name-server, but I'll just put a question mark…
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