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

That's worse than adding it in option 10

If you have an application that all internal users need access to from
both inside and outside you would update every users host file ?

Don Brown

Senior Consultant

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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Brad
Stone
Sent: Friday, 21 February 2025 8:48 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Can't Ping Hostnames, but can ping IP addresses

Host name in the hosts table on their PC that points to the internal IP.

At least when I am working with a client on VPN that's how I do it.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not disagreeing with you but was interested how one would
> achieve the
> required result.
>
> So how does an internal user access the http server using external DNS ?
>
>
>
> Don Brown
>
> Senior Consultant
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
> Of Rob
> Berendt
> Sent: Friday, 21 February 2025 8:03 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Can't Ping Hostnames, but can ping IP addresses
>
> Me, I would not do as Don suggested. That just plays heck with the
> various
> failover settings you may have. For example if my.com goes to
> 208.xxx.xxx.xxx from the outside where it hits an intelligent splitter
> which can route it to a number of internal servers based on their
> current
> status and then you route in internally directly to one by using a host
> table you've then blown that external splitter out of the water.
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Don Brown
> >
> > Senior Consultant
> >
> > [1]OneTeam IT Pty Ltd
> > P: 1300 088 400
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
> > Of Brad
> > Stone
> > Sent: Friday, 21 February 2025 5:57 AM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <
> > midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 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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> > > Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
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> > > Brad Stone
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 5:17 PM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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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?
> > >
> > > Bradley V. Stone
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