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  3. February 2005

RE: ftp problems pc to i5 at v5r3


I'm pretty sure your incorrect here. It may not make perfect sense, but as I understand it, the entry for the local machine is supposed to by in the host table.

Please explain why you think that? The host table should only be used for localhost, or for very very small networks (less than 5 computers.)

I suppose if you had a very small network, and wanted to have e-mail for those 5 computers, but didn't need the e-mail to work outside your LAN, then it might make sense to have your host set up in the host table. But that seems like a stretch!

From the Infocenter (Configure TCP/IP for the first time):
To define a host table, follow these steps: 
[SNIP]

Those are instructions for how to add something to the host table. They don't tell you when you should do it or why, just how to do it.


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