Re: dns/ip resolve error in PASE

ah ok - thanks for that clarification SK.

We used the host table initially because the Linux guy was following my
lead on the IBM i which he is not real familiar with and I'm not either in
the networking side of things.
I "thought" we could use that initially. But turns out it didn't matter
what we put in the host table... it still would not work.

so I went back and reviewed some of our steps...

lead us to creating the /etc/host file at the IFS root, with no luck, then
moved to the actual directory the goLang script runs out of.

we also created a /etc/resolv.conf off the root with some config info,
our Linux guy asked me to put in.
It did not help us.

Last thought from our senior Linux guy was... "find out if there's a way to
have a local hostname resolver (BIND?) running to listen on UDP port 53,
ideally to serve locally configured names"

So sounds a lot like what you mentioned. This particular lpa I'm on is on
7.4 so I'm pretty sure the ptf's exist to support "new BIND version 9 DNS
server"...

I'm looking at the go script now and seeing directories specified with the
last developers name in it. :) Those directories certainly don't exist on
my AIX lpar.

Like I said... Frankenstein project, passed from one to another... for some
reason?

I really need to circle back to the prior developer on this.

Jay



On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 7:29 PM Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Jay,

I think you misunderstood me. It doesn't surprise me that you're having
trouble resolving this problem -- this software doesn't seem very
user-friendly at all.

It does surprise me that you're using the host table, though. The host
table is typically only used for testing one-off scenarios and for very
small networks with very few hosts. A larger network almost always has
a DNS server because hosts are always changing so maintaining host files
on every necessary system is unmanageable.

-SK

st definitions in the host tables on each individual computer/server is
a huge amount of work.

On 8/2/2021 4:47 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

Btw…

SK… Does it also blow your mind that two other very veteran talented

developers on the Linux and other aix/ibm i platforms don’t know how to
resolve this either (including the guy who wrote the goLang)? We’ve spent
hours trying different things including things already mentioned here.

It’s been handed to me… for some reason… like some kind of abandoned

Frankenstein project.

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