Manage DNS Servers

Cisco Secure Access protects the DNS traffic in your organization. Add DNS servers to resolve DNS requests to internet resources. When adding these DNS servers, DNS Server 1 resolves before DNS Server 2. Provide DNS servers that could resolve both IPv4 and IPv6 if applicable.

Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• Add a DNS Server
• View DNS Servers
• Edit a DNS Server
• Delete a DNS Server

Prerequisites

• Full Admin user role. For more information, see Manage Accounts.

Add a DNS Server

Add an IP address or address range for a DNS server. Your DNS traffic routes through the DNS servers managed by Secure Access.

1. Navigate to Connect > End User Connectivity and click Manage DNS Servers.

2. Click Add.
3. Enter a label for the DNS server in Name and for DNS Server 1 provide the IP address of the primary DNS server. If you have a secondary DNS server, add an IP address for DNS Server 2.

4. Click Save and then click Close.

View DNS Servers

You can view the DNS servers that are configured for your organization. Your DNS traffic routes through the DNS servers managed by Secure Access.

1. Navigate to Connect > End User Connectivity and click Manage DNS Servers.

2. The list of configured DNS servers is displayed.

3. From the list you can click Add to add a new entry, or click the ellipsis (...) to Edit or Delete a DNS server entry.
4. Click Close to dismiss the list.

Edit a DNS Server

You can edit the attributes for a DNS server entry.

1. Navigate to Connect > End User Connectivity and click Manage DNS Servers.

2. Click the ellipsis (...) to Edit a DNS server entry.

3. You can modify the label for the DNS server in the Name field as well as modify the IP address of the primary and secondary DNS servers as needed for DNS Server 1 and DNS Server 2.

4. Click Save and then click Close.

Delete a DNS Server

You can delete a DNS server entry.

1. Navigate to Connect > End User Connectivity and click Manage DNS Servers.

2. Click the ellipsis (...) to Delete a DNS server.

3. Review the Delete DNS server message and then click Delete.
4. Scan the DNS server list to confirm that the DNS server is removed.

5. Click Close.

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