Re: dns problem in ftp

There's nothing in your 
CFGTCP, 10. Work with TCP/IP host table entries
for this since your searching *local before you're searching remote?

Some code that you may want to look at:
             PING       RMTSYS('FTP-IN.USPS.GOV') MSGMODE(*QUIET *ESCAPE)
             MONMSG     MSGID(TCP3210 TCP3202 TCP3213) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(
ALERT))

In your OVRDBF OUTPUT you should see something like
Connecting to host GDI at address 10.10.1.181 using port 21.
I tested this by connecting to one of our iSeries.  And, just for you, I 
did it with both ENDTCPSVR *FTP and STRTCPSVR *FTP.  Either way, you'll 
get that message.
Granted, that doesn't show you which dns was used.  But you could start 
comparing successful IP addresses versus unsuccessful connections.  This 
would tell you if
a - different dns connections are getting connected to different ip 
addresses and one is less reliable than another.
b - you consistently connecting to the same ip address and sometimes their 
ftp server just isn't working.

Rob Berendt