Configuration os Portal with DNS

Hi Experts,
Can you clarify me
1. What is DNS,  where can we store this value?
2. Is DNS and Portal URL both are same?
3 .Hhow can we configure the portal server with DNS?
Cheers
Phanikumar

hi,
what do you mean by dns? who told you, that you need it and what do you want to do with it?
usually DNS means Domain Name System <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system">Wikipedia</a>

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    SAP portal supports all standard [authentication methods|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/8a/cb136e68592f478266d19bb2b89766/frameset.htm] supported by Netweaver. Probably the only possible way is to use [SAML|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/94/695b3ebd564644e10000000a114084/frameset.htm]. [Here|http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/tivoli/library/t-cssosap/index.html] is a how-to guide how to set up SSO based on SAML between Tivoli and Netweaver applicaiton server.
    Also search on net. I found links to interesting presentations (e.g. [this one|http://www.switch.ch/aai/support/presentations/ws-sap-2010/ETHZ_AAI_SAP_SAML_Artifact.pdf]).
    Cheers

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