Re: "3 out of 4 IBM i machines I work on do not have DNS servers specified" Why not?

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Justin, you may be right, but #2 is slowly catching up and passing in some
cases.  For cloud services, email, web services, etc, the DNS is mandatory
when working with the inter-cloud (haha).

I also don't follow removing DNS entries as a WA for Java.  Sounds very
counter intuitive.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> DNS is a two-way street.
>
>
> 1.       You type "myGreatIBMi.com" into a client and that host is
> resolved to address 1.2.3.4 and is used to connect.  That uses the DNS
> servers configured on the client.  I'd say that in most cases, those will
> be network DNS servers set by DHCP when your client connects to the network.
>
> 2.       You have an IBMi app that's attempting to connect to a Google
> webservice.  The app uses a URL that starts with "google.com".  Your IBMi
> needs to have DNS servers defined so it can resolve that host to the IP
> address.
>
>
> I imagine that #1 is much more common than #2.
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