RE: Can a DDMF point to localhost?

Is the interface running? NETSTAT *IFC
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.0 *LOOPBACK Active

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jose Antonio Salazar Montenegro
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Can a DDMF point to localhost?

I went through all your helpful suggestions and links, and found a way to make it work.

It turns out that a 127.0.0.1 DDMF fails on use with CPE3425, without previous messages, something that was meant the service was down or the port was wrong, which they aren't:

CRTDDMF FILE(QTEMP/$DDMF)
RMTFILE(S47CYFILES/CRFCOM)
RMTLOCNAME('127.0.0.1' *IP)


But using the 'real' IP works fine:

CRTDDMF FILE(QTEMP/$DDMF)
RMTFILE(S47CYFILES/CRFCOM)
RMTLOCNAME('1.2.3.4' *IP)


I really don't know if this is equivalent to using 127.0.0.1 or if it's doing a round trip around our net. Either way, it would be better if the DDMFs pointed to localhost instead of a specific IP address.

¿Could it be a routing issue? Neither 127.0.0.1 or 1.2.3.4 appear in the TCP/IP routing table.