Re: Maintaining the DNS on the i5

ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The DNS redbook has a mention that the records should preferably always be
> edited via the Ops Nav interface, but i've found a few situations otherwise
> (with the help of IBM Service).  We've had a few instances where the GUI
> interface to the DNS zones doesn't show all the listings that are in the
> actual text files that drive the server.  It seems that sometimes there are
> 'ghost' records that get left in the files and queries will still resolve
> using those records.   We needed to remove them manually from the actual
> zone file because they didn't show in the GUI.  Not sure how common this
> is...

If you want them fixed, you really need to report them.  I have found that I
can't know how customers are using DNS unless they report problems, and then we
can see the usability issues.

The problem with the gui is it doesn't know how to handle what it thinks are
"errors" and therefore hides or throws a red triangle error icon.