RE: DNS on iSeries issue -- MIDRANGE-L

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In your DHCP server configuration you can specify what to give out as the
DNS server.  This is tag #6 for DNS server.  You will have to specify your
DNS server IP Address.  If you have configured your iSeries as a DNS server
and have the service running, you would then enter the IP address that the
DNS service is configured to run on in the DHCP server.

1. Configure DNS service and start
2. Configure DHCP service and start
3. Configure workstations to use DHCP and retrieve DNS configuration from
DHCP

Chris Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
There must be something I do not understand.  The i5 is a DNS server and
DHCP server.  I was under the assumption that if I set the PC's on our local
LAN to "Obtain DNS server address automatically" and "Obtain an IP address
automatically" that I would get an IP address from the i5 (DHCP) and would
use (for DNS) whatever the i5 had set up as DNS servers.  Apparently that's
not the case.  So what is my PC using as a DNS server?  Does that mean there
is some PC acting as a DNS server in our office?

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