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SonicOS 7 DNS Guide

Technical Documentation>  Configuring DNS Proxy Settings>  About DNS Proxy>  Supported Interfaces
Table of Contents
  • SonicOS 7.0
  • About Network
    • DNS Introduction
  • Configuring DNS Settings
    • Configuring DNS for IPv4
      • Specifying which DNS Servers are Used
      • Enabling Proxy of Split DNS Servers
      • DNS Rebinding Attack Prevention
      • DNS Rebinding and Cache Lookup
    • Configuring DNS for IPv6
      • Specifying which DNS Servers are Used
      • Enabling Proxy of Split DNS Servers
      • Enabling DNS Host Name Lookup over TCP for FQDN
    • Configuring Domain-Specific DNS Servers for Split DNS
      • About Split DNS
        • About Per-Partition DNS Servers and Split DNS
      • Adding a Split DNS Server
      • Editing Split DNS Entries
      • Deleting Split DNS Entries
  • Configuring Dynamic DNS
    • About Dynamic DNS
      • Supported DDNS Providers
    • Dynamic DNS Profiles
      • Configuring Dynamic DNS Profiles
      • Editing Dynamic DNS Profiles
      • Deleting Dynamic DNS Profiles
  • Configuring DNS Proxy Settings
    • About DNS Proxy
      • Supported Interfaces
      • DNS Server Liveness Detection and Failover
      • DNS Cache
      • High Availability Stateful Synchronization of DNS Cache
      • DHCP Server
    • Enabling Log Settings
    • Monitoring Packets
    • Configuring DNS Proxy Settings
      • Configuring DNS Proxy Settings
      • Deleting Static DNS Cache Entries
      • Viewing DNS Proxy Cache Objects
      • Flushing Dynamic DNS Cache Entries
  • SonicWall Support
    • About This Document

Supported Interfaces

The DNS proxy feature is supported on:

  • Physical interfaces
  • VLAN interfaces
  • VLAN trunk interfaces

The zone for each interface should only be:

  • LAN
  • DMZ
  • WLAN
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