Re: What are you using for CHGTCPDMN INTNETADR (DNS servers) parm?

Larry,

FYI: I had no plan to remove the internal.

1) If internal only, how would you find anything external? I assume you're
going to say the internal DNS being used on turn uses external DNS servers,
which it does.

2) If internal only and you're a small company with only a single internal
DNS server, and it goes down, aren't you then stuck?





On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:24 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Internal Internal Internal. Otherwise Internal.

You want IBM i to see the same internal name resolution as all other
servers in your network.

If you use the same domain name inside as outside then responses from the
public DNS will be flatly wrong as they will report public IP addresses not
private ones. (e.g. if your public domain name is yourcompany.com and you
also use that for servers in your data center.)

If you use yourcompany.com externally and yourcompany.someothertld
internally you also never want your system to fall back to an external DNS
server or you would get NO resolution to anythingatall.yourcompany.some
thertld.

Either is bad, one returns a lie, the other returns nothing.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 2/27/2017 1:11 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

All,

What are your IBM i machines using? We're using 1 internal
(192.168.0.230)
and 2 external we got from Comcast many moons ago: 68.87.72.130 and
68.87.77.130.

I'm wondering if there are better ones to use than these 2 Comcast
addresses.

Thanks.


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