[1040] in Moira
Re: slight inconsistency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Dec 20 23:12:11 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:14:59 EST."
<9612201815.AA17733@starkiller.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 23:12:05 EST
Actually, if anything were to get change it would probably be the
"Lookup Machines" query. We don't want it to be too easy for people
to accidently submit queries with lots of wildcards as these can tie
up the server for the better part of an hour, before it decides ther
is too much info to return. (I can also believe that someone might
just hit return a few time to try to get out of a query, if they
didn't know that ^C was the right thing.
Jonathon
> The "Lookup machines" option of the "Machine Menu" allows you to leave a
> particular field blank to match any ("or leave empty to match any"); however,
> the "Get host alias information" option of the "Host Alias Menu" requires
> you to use '*' to match any. It seems to me that I should be able to leave
> a field empty and have Moira perform the exact same behavior as it would had
> I entered a '*'. Obviously, however, this is a low priority feature ;)
