Re: PING and DNS resolution Acting Odd

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Works correctly for me on multiple i 7.1 boxes and i 7.2 boxes.  In each 
case IBM i is the DNS in use (ported BIND of course)

ONLY thing I wonder about is when it's in quotes the names is all lower 
but when no quotes are used it's all UPPER in the TCP3203 info message 
that precedes the ping attempts. Maybe their DNS no likie the lower case?

If it's *nix that would make *ZERO sense of course but Windows might 
could be so silly as to act that way....

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 8/29/2017 9:44 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:
> I have a client who's working with the paypal addon I created and
> having some very odd results with host name resolution.
>
> Basically on his machine it throws "Error retrieving address by name"
> for api.sandbox.paypal.com.
>
> So we tried ping.
>
> PING 'api.sandbox.paypal.com'
> returns:
> Unknown host, api.sandbox.paypal.com
>
> But, if you leave the quotes off:
>
> PING api.sandbox.paypal.com
>
> It resolves to the IP just fine.
>
> Adding a host table entry for the host name also fixes the first issue
> with the quotes (but I told him do NOT enter host table entries in
> production for sites).
>
> PINGing other hosts such as google, yahoo, etc with or without quotes
> works just fine.
>
> I am leaning towards a DNS issue, but I for the life of me can't think
> of why it would work without quotes on the PING, but not with quotes
> around the host name.
>
> Bradley V. Stone
> www.bvstools.com
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