Re: Looking for view containing printer IP addresses -- MIDRANGE-L

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OK. I believe I am following your explanation. If I am, then the original poster's best solution might well be to first ask his network guy to set up a local DNS, then come up with a meaningful naming scheme for the IBM i devices? And finally, let the network guy do as he wishes with IP numbering because it is no longer relevant to the IBM i side?

On 7/18/2016 3:18 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

Ok. Let's say you have a printer with an IP address of 10.3.2.3.
The network guy does some changes and decides that the subnets all should
be renumbered. So now this printer has an IP address of 10.17.6.3.
If you use DNS it's up to him to change the DNS entries. He will not mess
with device descriptions, nor host table entries, on IBM i.

If you're using a remote device then you have this:
Remote location:
Name or address . . . . . . . . : P01A08
and that will use DNS

If you use a remote outq you have this
Remote system . . . . . . . . . . . . : P01A08

We do not put IP addresses in there.

Rob Berendt

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