Maybe I'm not seeing something here, but is there any reason why you don't add an A and MX record for your HMC to DNS? Do that, and the problem goes away. The name just has to resolve at the receiving end; doesn't imply any connectivity or access to the HMC.
Assuming you are using the reserved blocks of addresses for the HMC internally, allowing the name to resolve doesn't do any harm and makes your life easier - since those reserved blocks can't actually connect outside your local net, problem solved and no code changes are needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
