[311] in Moira
extending Moira towards network management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Thu Jun 20 18:31:44 1991
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 18:26:32 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: geer@irc.cbm.dec.com's message of Thu, 9 May 91 16:13:32 -0400 <9105092013.AA07277@uncertainty>
Several people have asked about having Moira manage IP addresses.
This is certainly doable, with one gotcha: you have to make sure that
Moira can bootstrap itself and never needs information in a running
nameserver before it can update that server.
This has been on my to-do list for a while here. The way we plan on
doing it is to have an object called a subnet with a name, a net
number, and a description. Machines are then assigned to a subnet,
and moira can assign a suitable host number on the subnet. For
instance, we might have a subnet called "Student-center" with number
18.71.0.0, and netmask 255.255.0.0. When machine SPEAKER.MIT.EDU is
assigned to that subnet, Moira can assign it a host number that is
unique among all numbers of machines on that subnet.
Does this model fit what people need at other sites as well? This
might as well go in in a way that is generally useful and not specific
to MIT.
-Mark
