You might want to use a host table other
than a DNS server to resolve your IP addresses. You can ignore this
step if you only use a DNS server.
Like a DNS server, a host table is used
to associate IP addresses with host names so that you can use easily
remembered names for your system. The host table supports both IPv4
and IPv6 addresses.
To define a host table using
the character based interface, follow these steps:
- On the command line, type CFGTCP (Configure
TCP/IP command) and press Enter to access the Configure TCP/IP menu.
- Select Option 10 (Work with TCP/IP Host Table Entries),
and then press Enter.
- Specify 1 (Add) for the Opt prompt
and press Enter to access the Add TCP/IP Host Table Entry menu.
- At the Internet address prompt, specify the IP address
you defined in Step 3.
- At the Host name prompt, specify the associated
fully qualified local host name, and then press Enter. Specify a plus
sign (+) by the + for more values prompt
to make space available for more than one host name, if necessary.
Note: You can specify up to 65 host names for a single host
table entry (IP address).
- Repeat steps 1 through 5 for each of the other hosts on
the network to which you want to communicate with by name, and add
an entry for each.
After defining a host table, you can use
either the character-based interface or IBM Navigator
for i to change the
configurations.