Hi folks,
I have the following situation, the guys from network team which manage a remote server told that they will decommission a host for that remote server where we send data. but they will have other host which they told that will remain available.. my question is the following, the host to be decomissioned is something like this ftp.old_server_storage.com and the other which will still be available is similar ftp.new_server_storage.com but basically is the same box behind -- if we change in the TCP/IP Host table entries to have the same ip behind for both : ftp.old_server_storage.com and also for ftp.new_server_storage.com .. do we have any impact?
this decomission is related to the access through internet?
the name for host used on AS400 side in the internal programs which does ftp is important as long as in the TCP/IP Host table entries we can put the ip behind? I mean if the host will not be anymore available for the clients which use the website, for us will be if we have the link behind to the ip for this old host name?
I get a response like this from admin side which confused me a lot:
"If you're going to ftp.old_server_storage.com it's getting the address from DNS, not the host table. You shouldn't use this name, it is being decommissioned. If the IP address of ftp.new_server_storage.com changes we can update the host file so your program will still work"
Please give me some hints on this.. can this be handled form TCP/IP host table to avoid any impact or what it means that the address is getting from DNS? can be done some adjustment for this?
I have the following situation, the guys from network team which manage a remote server told that they will decommission a host for that remote server where we send data. but they will have other host which they told that will remain available.. my question is the following, the host to be decomissioned is something like this ftp.old_server_storage.com and the other which will still be available is similar ftp.new_server_storage.com but basically is the same box behind -- if we change in the TCP/IP Host table entries to have the same ip behind for both : ftp.old_server_storage.com and also for ftp.new_server_storage.com .. do we have any impact?
this decomission is related to the access through internet?
the name for host used on AS400 side in the internal programs which does ftp is important as long as in the TCP/IP Host table entries we can put the ip behind? I mean if the host will not be anymore available for the clients which use the website, for us will be if we have the link behind to the ip for this old host name?
I get a response like this from admin side which confused me a lot:
"If you're going to ftp.old_server_storage.com it's getting the address from DNS, not the host table. You shouldn't use this name, it is being decommissioned. If the IP address of ftp.new_server_storage.com changes we can update the host file so your program will still work"
Please give me some hints on this.. can this be handled form TCP/IP host table to avoid any impact or what it means that the address is getting from DNS? can be done some adjustment for this?
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