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By jove I think you have it. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. The DNS is maintained manually. Think of it like a shared hosts file. I recommend using the names and not the IP address. There are some extremely rare conditions to use the ip address. One has to do with tricking the Code/400 Project organizer. And I forget the other cases. But we've changed our IP address and you don't want to have to change all your clients. Trust me. Our original addresses were picked by someone (who no longer works here) who thought these were reserved. However we've discovered that 198. addresses are not and you should see the site with the duplicate ip address to what we've had. Don't forget to add the DNS entry to CFGTCP-12. Then you should be able to ping by name from your 400 using the PING command. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Rick Rauterkus" <ricker@simmonsjp.c To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> om> cc: Sent by: Fax to: midrange-l-admin@mi Subject: RE: Help! Network no longer recognizes AS/400 hostname drange.com 03/14/2002 10:30 AM Please respond to midrange-l Ok, I'm learning much more about networking than I wanted to, but unfortunately it is necessary. If you don't mind, couple of more questions before I sit down with the networking person: First off, we are running DNS on a W2K server. Second, just so I understand this correctly, having the address of the DNS server on a particular computer allows that computer to resolve names, but does not help other computers to resolve a name to this computer? That is the function of the DNS. Next, how does the DNS server know all the names on the network? Is there an equivalent to the HOSTS file that should contain all the names? Is this maintained manually or by some automatic means? Also, in going around trying the resolve the problems, I noticed that he had setup most of the machines with the AS/400's IP address instead of the name, which explains why some were having problems and others weren't. Is there an advantage one way or another? Many thanks again for all your help! Rick _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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