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Re: Aliased names.
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Mark . Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: Aliased names. |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:26:02 +0200 (MET DST) |
On 12 Apr, Germa Denis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When defining classes, it would be a gould Idea to
> define the classes for the name of the machine
> you are running on and it's aliases (DNS aliases cname).
>
> The mail server is named "toto", but is also named "mailserver", and
> "printserver".
> Those logical names enables us to change the behaviour of the machines
> without changing cfengine scripts, the same way we would do that through
> the NIS netgroups.Germa Denis wrote:
>
> Presently when running cfengine, the defined classes is toto,
> and there is no mailserver nor printserver defined.
>
> Same thing for the multiple names in NIS maps.
>
There is code for this, but it doesn't work, because DNS
is not predictable. I can't remember if I figured out
what the problem was...If anyone want's to figure
out how to coax the CNAME aliases out of DNS, please
be my guest. It should be easy, but....
M
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