Re: TL Ashford vs High Availability

Yep. Upgrading switches to do otherwise was cost prohibitive.


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From: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 09/12/2012 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: TL Ashford vs High Availability
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So your not using ip'npersonation then. So when you role swap the other
box gets a new IP but the name stays the same in the dns, no dns flush,
they just change the dns to point to the other system then that now has
it(s) interface active??

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:57 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just one or two developers who use TL Ashford to design labels.


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From: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 09/12/2012 09:49 AM
Subject: Re: TL Ashford vs High Availability
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Rob, Are you talking many users or 1 user.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:42 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What? So if our development machine is named GDISYS and it's Mimix

backup

is GDISYS2 and during a switch the dns is updated to change GDISYS to
GDISYS2's IP address I now have to create another dns entry called WTF
that I also have to flop back and forth between these two ip

addresses?

And all "regular" users continue to use GDISYS but any developers who

use

TL Ashford connecting to GDISYS have to set all their 5250, etc to

connect

to WTF?


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From: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion

<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date: 09/12/2012 08:50 AM
Subject: Re: TL Ashford vs High Availability
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Rob, how come you can't have a behind the scenes dns entry for when

you

switch over that he could then use.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:47 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We are having an issue connecting from a PC to configure TL Ashford.

It's

pretty much mandatory to have a host table entry on the PC to

connect

to

the system. It doesn't matter if you already have a working dns

entry

to

the system which works fine for your 5250, odbc, etc. The problem

with

this is, when we switch over to our backup system the developer

cannot

connect to 5250 or anything else because of this host table entry

still

pointing to the IP address of the down system.

A workaround might be having TL Ashford connect to AshfordBullshirt

and

putting in a host table entry for that. Then the only problem would

be

TL

Ashford development not working during a switch. His 5250 and

everything

else would be fine.

<rant>
I hate host table entries!
</rant>

The developer says I had a workaround for his old PC but I can't

remember

what it was.

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