RE: Slow Ping using Host Table

[CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Must be a pretty small enterprise then.

Are you saying you don't?  How many PCs & iSeries systems?


Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Brandt Sr. [mailto:pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:58 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Slow Ping using Host Table
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> 
> What if you don't have a DNS server in your enterprise?
> 
> John Brandt 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walden H. Leverich [mailto:WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:47 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 incorrect or outdated entries in a HOSTS table (iSeries and 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
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