On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Roger Bolan <rogerbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On my systems FTP is still faster than IND$FILE, but let me just throw out > a little tidbit for consideration. > > On my own Personal Communications sessions that use IND$FILE for transfers, > I found a very noticeable increase in speed if I defined my connections > using the numeric dotted IP address for the host instead of a host name > that got resolved through DNS. I can't explain why. I can only report > that someone once suggested that to me and it did make my IND$FILE > transfers faster. YMMV. If that's really the case (not saying you're lying, obviously, just that it could be chance/perception), then PComm is designed pretty badly: this only makes any sense if it's doing a DNS lookup repeatedly, which would be dumb. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
