Re: Connecting i5 Express to Internet

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I saw you did set up the DNS entries.

Anyhow, remove the host table entires.  Those just mess stuff up.  Rely
instead on your DNS servers to do that.

And, since you're connecting directly to your ISP, the next hop shouldn't be
your static IP address.  It's normally the IP address of a router or
gateway.  Since you don't have one.. well, maybe you don't need it?

Anyhow, I'd suggest going to Best Buy/Circuit City, etc, and picking up a
router if you don't have one already.  Go through that.  Most have built in
firewalls and can do the routing for you.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Rich Dotson
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:15 PM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WEB400] Connecting i5 Express to Internet
>
>
> I am trying to connect an iSeries 515 to the internet and would like
> some guidance.  This is my first try at this side of things after 20
> years of programming on the midrange.    I am signed on to the i5
> using the System Console attached to the T6 port.
>
> 1. I have a static IP address from my ISP.
>
> 2. I configured the ethernet line on the iSeries (defined to use
> the T5 port).
>
> 3. I setup the TCP/IP interfaces as follows:
>
> Internet Address       SubNet                 Line Desc       Line Type
> 74.219.167.174         255.255.255.252   ETHLIN           *ELAN
> 127.0.0.1                  255.0.0.0              *LOOPBACK  *NONE
>
>
> 4. I setup the TCP/IP Routes
>
> Destination       Mask          Next Hop             Interface
> *DFTROUTE     *NONE       74.219.167.174     *NONE
>
> 5. Setup the TCP/IP host table entries
>
> Internet address          Host Name
> 74.219.167.174           S1048D02
>                                  DDMSONLINE
>                                  DDMSONLINE.COM
>
> 127.0.0.1                    LOOPBACK
>                                  LOCALHOST
>
> 6. Changed TCP/IP Domain
>
> Host name: DDMSONLINE
> Domain Name: DDMSONLINE.COM
>
> DNS Internet address: 65.24.0.168
>                                 65.24.0.169
>
> 7. I plugged the i5 into the internet modem / router
>
> 8. Started TCP/IP and the TCP/IP server
>
> When I try to PING the domain name DDMSONLINE.com it says:
>
> Verifying connection to host system S1048D02 at address 74.219.167.174
> Cannot reach remote system
>
>
> Where do I go from here?
>
> Thanks in advance...
> Rich..
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