Re: IBM ACS "Feature" In case you can't connect

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Rob.  I'm familiar.  I rant often about not using IPs (or host
table entries) and instead to use DNS and host names, but that's more for
web services, email servers, etc. that are on the intra/inter-web.

http://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=65

I would guess 3 out of 4 IBM i machines I work on do not have DNS servers
specified.  2 of 4 will ping something (like smtp.office365.com) from their
PC and create a host table entry on the i for the one IP address that
happens to get returned.  *shudder*.

In this case they are internal IPs for machines that I'm working with a
VPN.  I doubt many customers set up their telnet IPs in a DNS. But I can
bet some actually do.

Maybe I'll test if a space after a hostname also causes this issue.  ;)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You may wish to consider deploying something called a Domain Name Server
> or DNS.  On that you use names instead of IP addresses.  Some people find
> names easier to remember and, therefore, do not need to copy/paste in IP
> addresses.
>
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> From:   Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   12/08/2016 08:57 AM
> Subject:        IBM ACS "Feature" In case you can't connect
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> Just a quick FYI in case you run into this.
>
> I set up a new session for a client on IBM i Access Client.  For some
> reason it would not connect.  I could telnet and use other emulators but
> no
> go with ACS.
>
> I double checked everything and then noticed that I had a space after the
> IP address in the connection info (probably from cutting and pasting the
> IP
> address).
>
> Well, I removed that and things were fine and it connected.
>
> %trimr anyone?  ;)
>
> Brad
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