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How to disable Cisco router domain name lookup

 

Ever foul up a command on a router or switch and have to sit there and wait for five minutes while it translates for the "domain" ?

Simply enter global config mode and type



router(config)# no ip domain-lookup



There, no more waiting for the DNS searches to time out.

 

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