Re: How does one determine who is using a DNS entry

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure I understand...

If you change the IPs assigned in DNS, then the clients connection via
those names will simply use the new IPs.

Why do you think that would cause a failure?

Charles


On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> We have two DNS entries, one for Production LPAR and one for R&D LPAR.
> Each DNS entry point to our original IP.
>
> Pencor05.pencor.com points to x.x.x.5
> Pencor06.pencor.com points to x.x.x.6.
>
> We have a 2nd IP on each LPAR, going through a 2nd firewall.
>
> We'd like to change the two DNS entries to point to the newer, more secure
> IP.
> Things will fail.
>
> Is it possible to determine who or what is using these DNS entries?.
>
> I probably need the network folks to create 2 new DNS entries for each of
> the new IPs.
>
> Anyone ever go through this exercise.
>
> Thank You
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>
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