Re: "3 out of 4 IBM i machines I work on do not have DNS servers specified" Why not?

Booth,

I attribute it to the AS/400, iSeries, IBM i, etc in the past was more of
an island in a corporation that crunched numbers (AR, Payroll, inventory,
etc) and rarely communicated with the outside world (web services, etc),
and if it did it was with phone lines, fax, etc. For that reason, no DNS
was needed.

Also, I find most shops these days rarely is there a dedicated sysop that
would know this stuff. Which is too bad. Programmers now wearing the
sysop hat to save money? Who knows why.

But, now that it is, some of the "workarounds" I've found such as Pinging
on a PC and adding a host table entry make my skin crawl.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In another thread Bradley Stone wrote " ... 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. ..."

Which brings me to the question: Why not? Is it dangerous? Too
convoluted? Not nerdy enough, or too nerdy? Dragons be there? On the face
of it the use of a naming schema goes a long ways in avoiding typos,
confusion, upgrading hassles, and general housekeeping.

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