RE: QNTC and multiple Domain Controllers

Personally I detest host table entries. Having to use that points to a
host of issues with your existing network.

From a PC on the local network do a Start, Run, Cmd. Once at the dos

command line type in
ipconfig /all
Record the values you have for:
Host Name
Primary Dns suffix
IPv4 Address
DNS Servers

My PC is showing these values:
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : GDL164
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : dekko-1
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.8.237
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.4.250
10.10.4.252
10.17.4.180

What you have in CFGTCP, 12,
Domain name server:
Internet address . . . . . . . '10.10.4.250'
Internet address . . . . . . . '10.10.4.252'
Internet address . . . . . . . '10.17.4.180'
Should match
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.4.250
10.10.4.252
10.17.4.180

You may be having dns lookup issues from your IBM i because you have a
network administrator as sadistic as ours who changes the IP addresses of
our DNS servers occasionally.

What you have in CFGTCP, 12,
Domain search list . . . . . . . 'dekko-1 corp.dekko.com dekko.com'
should have, as a minimum, what you have in
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : dekko-1
You may want to run ipconfig /all on other PC's that you are having issues
with to see what their "Primary Dns Suffix" is and include that in Domain
search list.

Once you have that you should be able to run these commands from your IBM
i command line:
CALL QCMD
PING GDL164
Verifying connection to host system GDL164.dekko-1 at address
10.10.8.237.
Why did it initially try GDL164.dekko-1? Was it because it was the first
in the "Domain search list"? Probably. Because on CFGTCP, 12 I have
Domain name . . . . . . . . . . 'corp.dekko.com'
so that IBM i thinks it is in the corp.dekko.com domain.

Hopefully being able to tie your IBM i's networking setup to your PC's
network setup helps to clear up some issues.



Rob Berendt