Manage Server: Adv.

An Oracle Names servers not only respond to requests for information for its own domains, but it also responds to requests for information it has obtained through transactions with other Oracle Names servers. The Adv. tab enables you to configure how client requests are forwarded to Oracle Names servers in remote administrative regions.

Authority Required

Choose this option to instruct the Oracle Names server to obtain information from an Oracle Names server in a remote region. If this option is not selected, an Oracle Names server will respond to a client request directly, without forwarding the request to an Oracle Name server in the remote administrative region.

Default Forwarders Only

Choose this option to forward queries only to those Oracle Names server listed as default forwarders.

Forwarding Desired

Choose this option to instruct the Oracle Names server to provide remote Oracle Names address location information to clients. This way, client are redirected to the appropriate Oracle Names server. If this option is not selected, the Oracle Names server will have to connect to the remote Oracle Names server on behalf of clients.

Forwarding Available

Choose this option to instruct the Oracle Names server to forward client request to remote Oracle Names servers. If this option is not selected, clients without access to the network outside the local domain will not be able to resolve names.

Modify Requests

Choose this option to instruct the Oracle Names server to refuse any operations that modify data in its administrative region. This means that users cannot add new data to the Oracle Names server.

Maximum Reforwards

Specify a value between 1 and 15 for the maximum number of times the Oracle Names server will attempt to forward a client request to a remote Oracle Names before allowing it to fail. The default is 2.

Apply button

Choose to apply settings to the Oracle Names server.

Revert button

Choose to reset the settings to their original values.

Set Password button

If a password has been set, enter the password for the Oracle Names server.