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  3. February 2005

RE: ftp problems pc to i5 at v5r3


Do you have your 520's host name defined in its own host table? I've seen some weird things happen when it isn't. I always define it alone and fully qualified with domain name, ex. my520, my520.mydomain.com.

This does not make sense. You should never have this in your host table. It makes no sense for the iSeries to connect to itself by it's external IP Address -- if it wants to connect to itself, it should be using 'localhost' (127.0.0.1). Why go over the network to talk to YOURSELF?

It also makes no sense for it to need a host table to determine IT'S OWN IP address. It knows it's IP address since it's defined in the network interface setup.

Frankly, if you encounter something that doesn't work without the name of the local machine in the host table, it's a bug (and probably someone's stupid mistake) that should be reported and fixed.



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