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Walden, I have entries in my host tables so that the virtual LAN connections between my iSeries partitions are used instead of the physical LAN. Charles Wilt iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America ph: 513-573-4343 fax: 513-398-1121 > -----Original Message----- > From: Walden H. Leverich [mailto:WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:47 AM > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion > Subject: RE: Slow Ping using Host Table > > > >I'm at a loss as to why you'd ever want to set it to *REMOTE! > > Why would you ever want to set it to *local? Wouldn't it be better to > add an entry for the machine you want in the enterprise's DNS servers > rather than maintain a HOSTS table on every machine? > > I can see one argument that goes "the time to lookup locally before a > remote lookup is sooooo small, that it's worth it, just in > case you want > to override something in HOSTS" but I've see more problems causes by > incorrect or outdated entries in a HOSTS table (iSeries and > non-iSeries) > that I just don't think it's worth it. > > -Walden > > ------------ > Walden H Leverich III > President & CEO > Tech Software > (516) 627-3800 x11 > WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.TechSoftInc.com > > Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. > (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion > (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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