Re: Windows 2000 DNS and iSeries

["Dennis Lovelady" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Scott and Chris:

My suggestion w.r.t. the IP issue:  Put a DNS on the network.  Sounds like
your net's big enough that that should be in place anyway.  Get the hosts
file out of the picture entirely.  Then, it's a matter of one administrative
change in order to get the IP portion up and running.  The MIMIX portion...
well, that's a different ballgame altogether.

I've also seen people use a scheduler to push new hosts files out to the
public, and other sites actually push desktop icons that point to the
"production" server.  Depending on your environment, that may be a solution,
but any users who modify their own hosts files are likely to be plenty
disappointed.  Such is the life of administration, though.

MIMIX does this for a living.  I know they have some additional approaches
to this.  If you're a supported customer, give 'em a call.

HTH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Mildenberger" <Smildenber@Washcorp.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:43 PM
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 DNS and iSeries


> Chris,
>
> Can't help with your original problem here's something for you to think
> about.  We have mirrored machines (using Vision) and when we switch to the
> backup we actually change the IP address of the two machines so it doesn't
> matter if someone somewhere has the address of the production machine
> defined.
>
> Scott Mildenberger
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Whisonant [mailto:Chris.Whisonant@Comporium.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:42 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: Windows 2000 DNS and iSeries
> >
> >
> > Good question:
> >
> > It's likely that our IP address for the 400 will change
> > within the next
> > month and we're hoping to be able to switch between our
> > production and
> > backup machines with MIMIX in the future.  With 800 users
> > (only 30 on Win2K
> > presently) a static HOSTS file would not be a good idea.
> >
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