[674] in Moira
Re: Hosttable in Moira
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Wed Oct 20 12:31:11 1993
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 12:30:38 -0400
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: mar@MIT.EDU
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9310201623.AA01312@gulch.MIT.EDU> (message from Mark Rosenstein on Wed, 20 Oct 93 12:23:02 EDT)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 12:23:02 EDT
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
Sender: mar@MIT.EDU
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU
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I think it's a really bad idea to not sanity check hostnames in the
update_host query. Someone will enter bad data eventually and break
the updates. I`ve seen it happen to every other moira update. That's
why moira sanity checks almost everything now.
I agree that update_host should not let you *change* the host name to a
bad value. However it should allow you to select a "bad" host name in order
to change other attributes.
Yes, you can force a particular IP address just by storing that
address instead of "unique" in the address field. "unique" is
litterally that string, which causes moira to assign a real address
which is unique.
Can I force an IP address that is outside of the "assignable by Moira"
range?
-Jeff
