RE: DNS working properly

Guy,

What you are talking about is known as Dynamic DNS (aka DDNS).

Instead of having a just a statically configured DNS, the DNS server
accepts updates from outside sources, usually a DHCP server.

You have to configure DNS to accept the updates and DHCP to send them.

OS/400 has supported this since v5r1.

See here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzakk/rzakkc
onceptdynamic.htm

HTH,

Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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fax: 513-398-1121
  

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Terry
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 7:55 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: DNS working properly


I just came back from an iSeries course about LPAR, attached Intel 
Servers, Virtualization Engine, Director and other relatively new 
features on iSeries. One thing that stuck in my mind is that 
for some of 
these, you need DNS on your LAN working well. Which got me thinking 
about some of the problems I have with IBM Director.

With DNS working properly, should I expect to be able to do 
an nslookup 
on the name of any Windows PC on the LAN from an iSeries command line 
and get back the PC's IP address? Does this mean that the DNS 
Server and 
the DHCP server should be talking to each other?





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