[671] in Moira
Re: Hosttable in Moira
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Tue Oct 19 21:07:53 1993
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 21:07:12 -0400
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: tom@MIT.EDU
Cc: mar@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9310192247.AA09712@fahrvergnugen.MIT.EDU> (message from Tom Coppeto on Tue, 19 Oct 93 18:46:59 BST)
Cc: mar@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 18:46:59 BST
From: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
...
We were planning on falling back to hstath.txt for these few cases. It's a
lot easier (at least for some of us) then dealing with ingres.
However my suggestion still stands. Only the "add_host()" entry should do
extensive sanity checking on the name given. The other queries should accept
anything... so if we do force a weird name into the database, we can then
manipulate it as other hosts.
Personally I would rather force it into Ingres (once) then have to maintain
it as an exception in hstath.txt. By placing it in Ingres we protect its
address from duplicate assignment.
-Jeff
