RE: CA Express configurations

This is simply not true.
During configuration CA/400 will always try to resolve supplied name via
DNS. If this will fail - only then CA/400 will suggest to add an entry to
HOSTS file.

During normal connection setup it will hand over whatever hostname it has
to TCP/IP stack.
Depending on stack one has (and its settings), it - stack - can go to HOSTS
file first. At this moment one is going to have a problem if system was set
in HOSTS file and then IP address was changed.

I am surprised you have any problems with this. There are sometimes
problems of opposite kind - when IP address known to DNS is not valid for
some reason - then it is difficult to make CA/400 to ignore DNS and use
HOSTS file instead.

Best regards
    Alexey Pytel



"Graap, Ken" <keg@exchange.gasco.com> on 03/12/99 03:10:10 PM

Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

To:   "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
cc:    (bcc: Alexei Pytel/Rochester/IBM)
Subject:  RE: CA Express configurations





Roger wrote:
>Express doesn't provide the connection setup because it doesn't use a base
>connection (and, no background processes!). Unlike earlier versions,
Express
>requires you to explicitly put the HOSTS file there yourself (put a file
>named HOSTS (no extension) in the Windows folder with the line
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  system_name
>where xxx... is your AS/400's IP address and system_name is the AS/400's
>system name. This lets Express connect by system name.

I'll never understand why CA/400 developers just don't rely on DNS to
resolve IP addresses. Every other IP based program I run will resolve an IP
address via DNS. CA/400 always relies on a HOSTS file on the PC. If the
system name changes or we add another system we have to touch the HOSTS
files on ALL of our PC's before CA/400 will work....

Geesh!!!!!

Kenneth

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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Pence [mailto:rp@rogerpence.com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 12:18 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: CA Express configurations

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