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

Thats the part where I start scratching my head. IBM has worked so hard with wizards, safe & natural defaults, and general attention to helping us use modern tools yet the DNS feature is ignored like the red-haired child. IBM doesn't make these kinds of misstep - my assumption is that there be dragons.


On 12/8/2016 11:30 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:

Nathan,

I don't think it's that they don't "want" to act as a client. Most
programmers that now also wearing the sysop hat simply don't do enough
networking to understand the proper way to do things.

That is in no way a slam to anyone anywhere. I was in the same boat and
because of the software I made was forced to learn things the hard way as
well. But what I have seen over the years, especially the past 10 or so
now that shops are realizing they can communicate with the outside world
with their IBM i to do some pretty neat stuff.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Booth,

To be clear, are you saying that the domain name server attributes of the
CHGTCPDNM are _blank? No DNS entries specified?

Shops may not want an IBM i server to act as a TCP/IP client (FTP, HTTP,
SMTP, etc.). But that seems rather rigid - like back to the dark ages ;-)
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