Re: What are you using for CHGTCPDMN INTNETADR (DNS servers) parm?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I question the need for a DNS on each subnet. DNS is a very low resource 
use service. I would certainly not want to maintain 80 servers because 
my company has 40 subnets!!! (Which I do...)

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On 2/27/2017 1:37 PM, Chris Bipes wrote:
> Two ways to configure the internal DNS servers, 1. Recursive - but not PCI compliant or 2. use forwarders.  You the ones your ISP gave you as forwarders on your internal DNS server.
>
> For internal, you should have at least one for each subnet within your organization.  If you have only 1 subnet then you should have DNS servers on that subnet.
>
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: What are you using for CHGTCPDMN INTNETADR (DNS servers) parm?
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> Larry,
>
> FYI:  I had no plan to remove the internal.
>
> 1) If internal only, how would you find anything external?  I assume you're
> going to say the internal DNS being used on turn uses external DNS servers,
> which it does.
>
> 2) If internal only and you're a small company with only a single internal
> DNS server, and it goes down, aren't you then stuck?