[97535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Wed Jun 20 10:55:26 2007
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:54:34 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: david raistrick <drais@atlasta.net>
Cc: alex@pilosoft.com,
William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070620104231.B1383@xpc.icantclick.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
david raistrick wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 alex@pilosoft.com wrote:
>
>> information (i.e. source of all data). Canonical data is in
>> routing/forwarding tables on routers/switches. That's the operational
>> reality.
>>
>> The amount of data that you need to track IP allocations just doesn't
>> fit
>> well into DNS - there's no place to store customer id/service id, the
>> length of allocation (is this IP part of a /28? /29?), etc. So you'll
>> have
>> to have "canonical data" somewhere else anyway.
>
>
> You've never used comments in your dns? I have yet to figure out how
> to insert a comment into my routing tables that tells me what a
> routing entry is for,
Communities ;-)
--
Leigh
