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

Subject: Re: "3 out of 4 IBM i machines I work on do not have DNS servers specified" Why not?
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:16:10 -0600
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OH! That makes sense. See? Thats why I was asking.

So, step 1-&-only is to ask the network guy to give our boxes names we can publish internally?

On 12/8/2016 9:05 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:

Sounds like you're talking about running DNS on IBMi, which is a different can of worms entirely. I'd imagine that a majority of IBMi shops already have DNS running on other platforms, so most often we'd just be using those for DNS.

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

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