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Does FLEXlm work with NIS and DNS?

April 26, 2017DNS FLEXlm NIS

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Does FLEXlm work with NIS and DNS?

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Yes. However, some sites have broken NIS or DNS, which will cause FLEXlm to fail. In v5 of FLEXlm, NIS and DNS can be avoided to solve this problem. In particular, sometimes DNS is configured for a server that’s not current available (e.g., a dial-up connection from a PC). Again, if DNS is configured, but the server is not available, FLEXlm will fail. On PCs, if a checkout seems to take three minutes and then fails, this is usually because the system is configured for a dial-up DNS server which is not currently available. The solution here is to turn off DNS. Finally, host names must NOT have periods in the name. These are not legal host names, although PCs will allow you to enter them, and they will not work with DNS.