The Advanced tab allows you to configure advanced turning options for an Oracle Names server.

Authority Required:

Oracle Names servers not only respond to requests for information on their own domains, but they also respond to requests for information they have obtained through transactions with other names serves. In cases where they have recently gotten a record from another Oracle Names server in a remote region, they will respond to client requests for that information directly, without forwarding the request to the Oracle Names server in that region. However, when this is checked, the local Oracle Names server will get all its information on foreign regions from the Oracle Names server of that region, not second hand from a Oracle Names server that does not administer the target region.

Default Forwarders Only:

Click to have the Oracle Names server keep a list of default forwarders. These are other Oracle Names servers that this server uses to forward queries involving foreign regions. By clicking this checkbox, you are instructing this Oracle Names server to only forward to that list of servers.

Forwarding Desired:

If this box is not checked, instead of asking for its requests to be reforwarded, the Oracle Names server will ask to be redirected to the information requested. This has the effect of redistributing network load and taking load off the backbone Oracle Names servers. For example, in a domain like acme.com, Oracle Names servers in x.acme.com will forward requests for information on the domain y.acme.com to the Oracle Names servers in the backbone region acme.com, who then have to start a connection process to forward the request down to the Oracle Names servers in y.acme.com. If this box is false on the server in x.acme.com, the Oracle Names server in acme.com can merely redirect the request, and will not have to start a connection process, hence redistributing load from the acme.com servers to the servers in the subdomain.

Forwarding Available:

Click to specify that the active Oracle Names server forward operations to foreign. If this option is not clicked, the Oracle Names server will not forward client requests to other Oracle Names servers, which will leave clients without access to the network outside the local domain.

Modify Requests:

Click to specify that the active Names server refuse any operations which modify data in its region. This means that users cannot add new data to the Oracle Names server.

Maximum Reforwards:

Specify the maximum number of times (between 1 and 15) the local Oracle Names server will attempt to forward an operation before allowing it to fail.

Apply button:

Click to execute any command selected.

Revert button:

Click to restore the tab panel to its original settings.