Setting the DNS Configuration with vicfg-dns

The vicfg-dns command lists and specifies the DNS configuration of your ESXi host. You can call the command without command-specific options to list the existing DNS configuration.

You can also use esxcli network ip dns for DNS management.

Important: If you try to change the host or domain name or the DNS server on hosts that use DHCP, an error results.

In network environments where a DHCP server and a DNS server are available, ESXi hosts are automatically assigned DNS names.

In network environments where automatic DNS is not available or not desirable, you can configure static DNS information, including a host name, primary name server, secondary name server, and DNS suffixes.