Re: Tracking static IP addresses

["Harman, Roger" <Roger.Harman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You could setup DNS on the i as the primary and the Windows box as the secondary.  Just keep your i-specific entries on the i.  

But.... now you've introduced the problem of keeping them in sync.  I believe there is selective (zoned?) replication available but someone more knowledgeable about DNS than I am would have to weigh in on that.



-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 6:56 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Tracking static IP addresses

One point about this.  If I assign 192.168.0.34 to
ricoh1.dilgardfoods.local, and my System i printer definition references
ricoh1.dilgardfoods.local, then the DNS server must be up for the System i
to see the printer, right?

If the DNS server is another box and it's down, is the printer then
unreachable from the System i?

We have a Windows server doing DNS.


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Den 02/11/10 16.20, Burns, Bryan skrev:
> > Well of course we use DHCP but we need to permanently assign addresses
> > to printers, access points, switches, servers, special PC, etc., and
> > that's several hundred.
> You should give all of them a name anyway.  The most reasonable place to
> keep the information would hten be the configuration of the internal
> DNS-server.
>
> (and the advice of the day.  Use an internal-only domain name instead of
> reusing an external one).
>
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