RE: DNS on iSeries issue

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: DNS on iSeries issue
> From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, July 07, 2005 8:58 am
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > > What you probably want to do is set up the ISP's DNS servers as 
> > > FORWARDERS.  This involves telling the iSeries DNS server 
> > that if it 
> > > can't find an IP address, it should ask the ISPs DNS 
> > server.  That'll 
> > > give you the best performance, since lots of users use your ISPs 
> > > server and therefore it has a good cache of addresses, and doesn't 
> > > have to go all the way back to the root servers for every query.
> 
> Found it in iSeries Nav!  Now works from my PC.  It's amazing what RTFM will
> do when you find out there's a "FM" that fits nicely. ;)
>  
> > > Once you have that set up, you'll want to use CHGTCPDMN so that the 
> > > iSeries uses it's own DNS server for lookups -- that way 
> > it'll be in 
> > > the same boat as the PCs that use it :)
> 
> You mean that CHGTCPDMN has to have just 192.168.0.1 in the INTNETADR parm?
> That seems slightly odd, but what you're saying is to find a site, the i5
> will look at 192.168.0.1 (itself) because that's what's in the INTNETADR
> parm, then, if it cannot find the site, it will use the FORWARDERS I defined
> in iSeries Nav (which are 4.2.2.1/4.2.2.2, the Verizon DNS servers)?  Am I
> getting somewhere?
> 
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> Jeff Crosby
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