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Re: Aliased names.
From: |
Mark . Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: Aliased names. |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:33:35 +0200 (MET DST) |
On 12 Apr, Ronan KERYELL wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:26:02 +0200 (MET DST), address@hidden said:
>
> Mark> There is code for this, but it doesn't work, because DNS is not
> Mark> predictable. I can't remember if I figured out what the problem
> Mark> was...If anyone want's to figure out how to coax the CNAME
> Mark> aliases out of DNS, please be my guest. It should be easy,
> Mark> but....
>
> It sounds to me that what we are interested in is a map "name or IP ->
> aliases" but the DNS CNAME tables are "aliases -> name" map.
>
> The only way I can figure out is to test the DNS for every new cfengine class
> is
> met to see if we can find out one of our IP adresses again.
>
> That would also solve the multiple name -> same IP case by the way...
>
It is supposedly possible to extract all names and aliases for an IP
address from the C structures, but when I tried it did not work
as expected.
Mark
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