Re: Just a reminder to not use Host Table Entries

["Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes indeed. We refer to host table entries as 'land mines.'

You bury them today, and then some day in the future, you find them the 
hard way!

On 3/6/2023 4:04 PM, Brad Stone wrote:
> ...unless it's testing, or something internal.  Never use them for a
> replacement for setting up your DNS servers properly on your IBM i.
>
> Yes.. it happened again with a customer.  But this time it was for their
> cloud email server host.  It's now the first question I ask when there are
> issues because I've seen it WAY too many times.
>
> Their network team spent hours with traceroutes, pings, wireshark, etc.  I
> asked about the host table entries and boom, there they were.  Solved in 5
> minutes.
>
> Bradley V. Stone
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