address (Security Address Book)
Syntax
Hierarchy Level
Release Information
Statement introduced in Release 8.5 of Junos OS. Support for IPv6 addresses added in Release 10.2 of Junos OS. Support for IPv6 addresses in active/active chassis cluster configurations (in addition to the existing support of active/passive chassis cluster configurations) added in Release 10.4 of Junos OS. Support for wildcard addresses added in Release 11.1 of Junos OS. Support for address range added in Release 12.1 of Junos OS. The description option added in Release 12.1 of Junos OS.
Description
Add an entry containing an IP address or DNS hostname, or wildcard address to the address book. An address book contains entries for addressable entities in security zones, policies, and NAT rules. Address book entries can include any combination of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses, and DNS names.
Options
- address address-name—Name of an address entry.
- description text—Descriptive text about an address entry.
- dns-address domain-name—DNS address name.
- ip-prefix—IP address with prefix.
- range-address lower-limit to upper-limit—Address range for an address book.
- wildcard-address ipv4-address/wildcard-mask—IPv4 wildcard address in the form of A.B.C.D/wildcard-mask.
![]() | Note: IPv6 wildcard address configuration is not supported in this release. |
Required Privilege Level
security—To view this statement in the configuration.
security-control—To add this statement to the configuration.


