[1485] in Moira
Re: ghbo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Mar 24 16:07:39 2000
Message-Id: <200003242107.QAA06296@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:08:58 EST."
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:07:35 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> That's not correct. At some point in the future, LIST_NAME_SIZE might
>> be larger than MACHINE_NAME_SIZE. You need to either have separate
>> listname and machinename variables or use MAX_FIELD_WIDTH.
Using MAX_FIELD_WIDTH seems like the right thing here; I've changed
my patch to do that.
>> What are you planning on acling ghbo to? Karl's idea had been to make
>> it take a subnet argument as well, and you could then use it on any
>> subnet you have bits on. With your implementation, it wouldn't be
>> possible to restrict the RCCs to RCC networks, which people might care
>> about.
The idea I had discussed with Jonathon was to designate a new list as
the capacl for ghbo and put rcc, net-security, and a few other things on
it. In that case of net-security, we want people who don't have the
bits to create hosts on that subnet still look things up. In the
current world order, resnet networks are the only thing where owners are
common, so I don't think we're losing a whole lot letting people look up
machines anyplace.
Garry
