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NameSurfer 7.6.4.1


Introduction

  • Introduction to NameSurfer
  • NameSurfer Administrator's Guide

User interface overview

GLOBAL TOOLS

  • Dashboard
  • Search and modify
  • Add many

DNS

  • The index page
  • The zone page
  • The reverse zone page
  • The node page
  • The file upload page
  • The TTL page
  • The "add resource record" page
  • The change log and the Undo function
  • Searching
  • IP number allocation
  • Bulk changes pattern
  • Bulk changes search results
  • The transaction keys page
  • The transaction key page
  • The views listing
  • The view definition

Remote Servers

  • Managed Servers
  • Manage Configurations
  • Manage Slave Zones
  • Manage Forward Zones

Old User Interface - used for localhost servers

  • Remote Servers list
  • Remote Server configuration page
  • Display Preferences
  • Server Details
  • Show Active Leases (available for Managed DHCP Servers)
  • Check Configuration
  • Upload Configuration
  • Preview Configuration
  • Add New Entry
  • Change Log
  • Searching Change Log
  • Adding new secondary server
  • Remote configuration templates
  • Edit Remote configuration templates

DHCP Help

  • DHCPD 3.0 options
  • About containers and parameters
  • Viewing the dhcpd.leases file

IP Addresses

  • IP Address Management main page
  • Blocks
    • Root blocks
    • Divisible blocks
    • Address blocks
    • Delegated blocks
    • Block as a subnet
    • Ranges with restricted access
    • Export data
    • Import data
  • IPAM Hosts
  • Addresses
  • Owners
  • Information fields
    • Mutable information fields
    • Permanent information fields
    • Selectable information fields
  • Searching the database of IP addresses
    • Address reporting
    • Reporting of allocated or unallocated addresses
    • The address type to be reported
    • The address of block to be reported
    • The type of blocks to be reported
    • Limiting the listing of unallocated addresses
    • The owner of the blocks to be reported
    • Reporting private or public blocks
    • The recursion of report
    • The role of addresses to be reported
    • Limiting the size of blocks to be reported
    • The effect of block size parameter
    • Free subnet reporting
  • Block usage statistics
  • Default DNS zone
  • IP address ranges and pools on a bound DHCP block (DHCP Bindings and DHCP Address Pools)
  • DHCP Leases

Configuration

  • The user accounts page
  • The user page
  • The group list page
  • The group page

Navigation Footer

  • Logged in as: - This text shows the currently logged in user
  • Log out - Logs out the current user and returns to the login screen

DNS concepts

  • Authority
  • BIND
  • Caching
  • Delegation
  • DNS
  • Domains
  • How Dynamic DNS works
  • FQDNs
  • IP addresses
  • Primaries
  • Recursion
  • Resolvers
  • Resource records
  • Reverse mapping
  • The root domain
  • Secondaries
  • Time-to-live (TTL)
  • Wildcard records
  • Zones
  • Zone transfers
  • Incremental zone transfers

Resource record types supported by FusionLayer NameSurfer

  • A (IPv4 address record)
  • AAAA (IPv6 address record)
  • A6 (IPv6 address with aggregation and renumbering support record)
  • AFSDB (AFS database record)
  • ALSO_NOTIFY (Also Notify record)
  • CNAME (Canonical Name record)
  • DHCID (DHCP Identifier record)
  • DLV (DNSSEC Lookaside Validation record)
  • DNAME (Delegation Name record)
  • DS (Delegation Signer record)
  • HINFO (Host Information record)
  • HIP (Host Identity Protocol record)
  • HTML (HTML record)
  • HTXT (Hidden Text record)
  • ISDN (ISDN address record)
  • LOC (Location Record)
  • MX (Mail Exchange record)
  • NAPTR (Naming Authority Pointer record)
  • NS (Name Server record)
  • NSAP (Network Service Access Point record)
  • PTR (Pointer record)
  • REMSEC (Remote Secondary record)
  • RP (Responsible Person record)
  • RT (Route Through record)
  • SOA (Start Of Authority record)
  • SPF (Sender Policy Framework record)
  • SRV (Service Locator record)
  • SSHFP (SSH Public Key Fingerprint record)
  • TXT (Text record)
  • WKS (Well Known Services record)
  • X25 (X.25 address record)

CLI and API

  • Using the NameSurfer Command Line Interface
  • The online documentation for SOAP API
  • The documentation for NSAPI can be found at FusionLayer NameSurfer Reference Manual Appendix B, available at www.fusionlayer.com

WWW user interface

  • The WWW user interface configuration file
  • WWW user interface external authentication configuration file