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

Justin, you may be right, but #2 is slowly catching up and passing in some
cases. For cloud services, email, web services, etc, the DNS is mandatory
when working with the inter-cloud (haha).

I also don't follow removing DNS entries as a WA for Java. Sounds very
counter intuitive.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

DNS is a two-way street.


1. You type "myGreatIBMi.com" into a client and that host is
resolved to address 1.2.3.4 and is used to connect. That uses the DNS
servers configured on the client. I'd say that in most cases, those will
be network DNS servers set by DHCP when your client connects to the network.

2. You have an IBMi app that's attempting to connect to a Google
webservice. The app uses a URL that starts with "google.com". Your IBMi
needs to have DNS servers defined so it can resolve that host to the IP
address.


I imagine that #1 is much more common than #2.
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