Gerrit I don't know whether or not you reported this problem to IBM. You may know that this very fiddly system for the creating local name to address resolution tables has been there since the very beginning of TCP/IP for VM, the product from which the original TCP/IP for MVS was developed.
I'm pretty certain that IBM developers would now like to put this weird way of creating the tables behind them - although the layout is backed up by an antique RFC, 952 "DoD Internet host table specification" 1985 - and encourage the use of the "ipnodes" format which is a file you can simply edit and use. Thus your best bet to avoid frustrations like this is future is to customise your resolver function in order to introduce the COMMONSEARCH parameter. Have a look at section 1.5.4.4, "Creating ETC.IPNODES and /etc/ipnodes" in the CS IP Configuration Guide (1.8 edition in case the section number changes). Chris Mason ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
