Technical Tip: DHCP Secondary DNS server Option

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Description

This article describes how to configure DHCP Secondary DNS server via GUI and CLI.

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Solution

For version 6.0, 6.2, 6.4 GUI, you can define multiple DNS server with comma. Example 1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8.

From CLI, set as below:

# config system dhcp serve
edit x <----- X is the respective DHCP server ID.

set dns-server1 1.1.1.1
set dns-server2 8.8.8.8

end

For 7.0 and above, set the DNS via GUI as below:

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