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The Question is: Open VMS 7.1 to 7.3 Vax and Alpha platforms Hi Wizard, Our server IP's must be changed, but there are many batch and IP printer queues that explicitly refer to these IP's in their autostart and initialization strings. IP print queue: INITIALIZE/QUEUE/START/ON="24.25.189.12:9100" - /PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM - /DEFAULT=(NOBURST,NOFLAG,NOTRAILER,NOFEED - /BASE_PRIORITY=4/SCHEDULE=NOSIZE - /PROTECTION(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S)/LIBRARY=PCLDEVCTL /FORM=DEFAULT/OWNER=[SYSTEM] LASER_PTR_02 Is there a way of having these strings refer to a logical defined in a central file (site_logicals.com?), or use IP's pulled from the DNS table? If so, how could that be set up? Thanks, Chris The Answer is : You might choose to use an IP host name, as that is how most folks avoid hard-coding an IP host address -- the translation of the host name to host address is the most obvious, of course. You could also use network servers which translate IP addresses -- one of the more common terms is network address translation (NAT) -- and implement a hardware-level redirection of the traffic. As a rule, the OpenVMS Wizard would use the host name; it is easy to implement, easy to explain to others, and easy to maintain. If the host name specification is not available or not working -- and you have not indicated TCP/IP Services version and ECO -- please ensure you are running a supported version and the current ECO and then (if the problem persists) please contact the support center directly. Expect to be asked details of the versions and ECOs loaded for TCP/IP Services and for OpenVMS, and details of the command(s) used and any error message(s) displayed. Various OpenVMS releases do have limits on the length of the host name specified on the INITIALIZE command, and a fully-qualified host name of moderate length may not fit within the allowable command limits. If so, please contact the support center.
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