RE: ads.midrange.com -- MIDRANGE-L

Title: RE: ads.midrange.com

Dan

Usually it's really best to use DNS with the as/400 hosts included, rather than the HOSTS file if possible. Otherwise if you change your ip address of the host the HOSTS file on each pc will have to be changed, instead of changing one record in the DNS.

David Boling (bolingde@co.rowan.nc.us)
Information Systems Director
Rowan County Information Systems Department

-----Original Message-----
From: Bale, Dan [mailto:D.Bale@handleman.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:44 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: ads.midrange.com

Thanks for a great tip, Sean. But I really don't want to cut David (or more to the point, the list) out of ad revenue (which I presume this would do) that enables him to keep the lists free of cost and free of ads in the list emails. (I suppose, though, that if the site is completely unresponsive and it looks like ads. is holding it up, and I really need to find something "yesterday", then I might be inclined to try it.)

And, look, I get to turn this into a genuine midrange related question!

When I opened up my HOSTS file in the Windows folder, I was a little surprised that one of our AS/400s had two entries, one for its Host name and one for its System name. I went to a DOS window and tried FTP xxxxxx for both the Host name and System name, and it opened a connection to the same AS/400. All of our other AS/400s appear with only the reference to the System name, which is Snnnnnnn, where nnnnnnn is the system serial number. The Host names are easier to recall, so I will add these to the HOSTS file as well!

What is the format of the entries in the HOSTS file? Is it strictly IP address followed by a name? Are there other options?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400 Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------

-----Original Message-----
From:   Sean Porterfield [SMTP:sporter@bestdist.com]
Sent:   Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:25 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        RE: ads.midrange.com

The answer isn't good for David, but if you edit your \WINDOWS\HOSTS file
and add
127.0.0.1 ads.midrange.com

(or if you have 127.0.0.1, just append to the line) The lookup will fail
faster, but the ads will not display.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
>[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Bale, Dan
>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:50 PM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: ads.midrange.com
>
>
>I know almost nothing about how web pages work or what you call the part
>of the URL that comes right after the http:// and before the first
>period. Normally this is "www", but in some cases it isn't. When
>trying to access any of the *.midrange.com site, and in particular
>http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/, it seems that the browser gets
>stuck with:
>
>     Connect: Host ads.midrange.com contacted. Waiting for reply.
>
>which sits there for about two minutes, doing seemingly nothing. Once
>the "ads." message disappears, the rest of the page loads fairly
>quickly. I'm guessing that the ads.midrange.com is actually hitting
>something external to David's server to fetch ads? Is there any way to
>speed up this page, either on my end or on David's? Absolutely no
>offense intended David! I'm just not a good waiter! ;-)
>
>Dan Bale
>IT - AS/400
>Handleman Company
>248-362-4400 Ext. 4952
>D.Bale@Handleman.com
> Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
> (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)