Re: PTF FTP Download Problem

Since the i supports 3 DNS entries, if you only have one or two internals
you can use an external DNS as the final one. By doing this you're somewhat
insulated against times when the internal DNS is unavailable due to an
outage or an uncommunicated change. Verizon has 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.4 (maybe
4.2.2.3 but I've not checked) that I've used in the past with no problems.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Hi Jerry,

from the looks of things, someone put in a host table entry for
ptf.boulder.ibm.com. This is a bad idea -- because IBM is not obliged to
always run ptf.boulder.ibm.com on the same IP address. They expect you
to look up the IP address via DNS, not hard-code it onto your system.

So your setup probably worked fine, then one day IBM changed out the FTP
server. Maybe they upgraded it to a bigger/faster one? Maybe they put
it on a different network where they had less traffic, and therefore it
could respond faster? Who knows?

The point of DNS is that you don't hard-code IP addresses, and therefore
they can make changes without breaking anything.

Anyway, I suggest taking CFGTCP option 10 to find the host table entry,
and delete it.

Then, use CFGTCP option 12 (the CHGTCPDMN command) to configure DNS
servers, so that you can perform DNS lookups from your '400.
--

JJ
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