Creating a DNS Group

Applies to: SBC 3.1, 3.3

**Note: ** This article describes how to configure a DNS Group, which is not the same as creating a DNS server group for the Linux host.

You can create one or more DNS Groups to manage the DNS Server traffic of Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN).

1- Click DNS in the navigation panel

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2- Click Create New DNS Group

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3- Enter a name for the DNS Group.

• Click Create

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4- Verify that the "DNS group was successfully created" message appears

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5- Create a DNS Server for the DNS Group.

• Click Create New DNS Server.

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6- Configure the DNS Server.

• Enter a name for the DNS server.

• Enter an IP address for the server.

• Select a Local IP interface. This is the interface through which the DNS requests will be transmitted.

• Click Create.

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7- Verify that the "DNS server was successfully created" message appears

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8- Select an IP interface from the list of available interfaces. The interfaces that are added will have their FQDN requests resolved by this DNS group.

• Click to move the available interface over to the Current list.

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• Click Create.

The DNS Group with the new DNS Server and DNS Local entries are displayed.

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List of Parameters

• Name

• Enabled

• Use Cache

• Cache Expire Time

• Query Timer

• Query Retry Count