RE: DNS working properly

["Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy,

What you are talking about is known as Dynamic DNS (aka DDNS).

Instead of having a just a statically configured DNS, the DNS server
accepts updates from outside sources, usually a DHCP server.

You have to configure DNS to accept the updates and DHCP to send them.

OS/400 has supported this since v5r1.

See here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzakk/rzakkc
onceptdynamic.htm

HTH,

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Terry
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 7:55 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: DNS working properly
>
>
> I just came back from an iSeries course about LPAR, attached Intel 
> Servers, Virtualization Engine, Director and other relatively new 
> features on iSeries. One thing that stuck in my mind is that 
> for some of 
> these, you need DNS on your LAN working well. Which got me thinking 
> about some of the problems I have with IBM Director.
>
> With DNS working properly, should I expect to be able to do 
> an nslookup 
> on the name of any Windows PC on the LAN from an iSeries command line 
> and get back the PC's IP address? Does this mean that the DNS 
> Server and 
> the DHCP server should be talking to each other?
>
>
>
>
>
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