RE: "3 out of 4 IBM i machines I work on do not have DNS servers specified" Why not?

We had an app fail today, unknown reason.
Turns out DNS was returning incorrect IPS.
We were informed that Microsoft updated some DNS servers incorrectly.

Temporarily, only way to get the app working was to change from DNS names to IPs.

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 8:32 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: "3 out of 4 IBM i machines I work on do not have DNS servers specified" Why not?

Thus my question. If 3 out of 4 IBM i Series machines are not enabling their DNS, there must be a compelling reason. Is that reason reluctance, fear, and generally not understanding what the DNS feature offers a typical iSeries shop? Is it technically challenging with so little benefit as to not be worth the candle? Is it something else?

I have been looking at enabling the DNS on a development box that is on an Intranet and playing around with it. All the reading so far suggests that it is possible, confusing but not complicated, and beneficial.
None of what I have seen so far would keep 3 out of 4 shops from using the feature. In other words the words do not support the facts on the ground. So... what am I not seeing? What is the rest of the story?


On 12/8/2016 7:11 PM, DrFranken wrote:

No No No. The correct answer is installing a faster DNS. DNS should be
Secure, light, quick, reliable. And of course all of that means it
needs to be properly implemented!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

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