RE: Can't Ping Hostnames, but can ping IP addresses

Brad, that is interesting.

Just a side question.

If you have a http server that is accessed from both internal and external
I would add an entry in cfgtcp 10 for the internal address and have the
external address in the external dns server.

And I set it to *LOCAL

Then website.domain.com resolves to the internal address when you are
internal and the outside address when you are outside.

If you have *REMOTE how do you solve the above ?

Thanks
Don

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Brad
Stone
Sent: Friday, 21 February 2025 5:57 AM
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Subject: Re: Can't Ping Hostnames, but can ping IP addresses

It is *REMOTE. I always like this so that if they have any host table
entries (grrr!!) the DNS will be used first.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On CHGTCPDMN
>
> Is host name search priority set to *LOCAL or *REMOTE ? This can be
> an issue. Can try flipping it.
>
> Also make sure the IBM i system name can be pinged and is set
> correctly in CHGTCPDMN.
>
> That can cause issues.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Can't Ping Hostnames, but can ping IP addresses
>
> This may sound like the same post as before, but it's not. :)
>
> I have a client who can ping IP addresses from their IBM i (like
> 8.8.8.8) but not host names (like google.com)
>
> It just hangs when pinging a host name vs an IP address which returns
> expected results.
>
> They do have 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 set up as their DNS servers. No host
> table entries set up that should cause any problems.
>
> Any ideas what this could be?
>
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