[828] in Moira
hostalias confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Mon Oct 31 16:51:45 1994
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 16:51:31 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
Cc: resnet-help@MIT.EDU
A user deleted a host from the machine table. (I'm not sure how he
went about it.) Later, he tried give the old host's cnames to a new
machine, but failed because they still existed in the hostalias table:
imbrium% grep 10394 /mback/backup_1/hostalias
COMISKEY.MIT.EDU|10394
ZBT-4.MIT.EDU|10394
imbrium% grep 10394 /mback/backup_1/machine
imbrium%
(I checked this in Moira. It's just more compact to show this way. :-)
Shouldn't moirad have removed the aliases when the machine was
deleted? Is there some flakiness dbadmin should know about? Doug
(madpit) tells me that over in Network Support Services they're told
to mark a machine as status "deleted" rather that to actually delete
the machine record.
Oh, one other thing: When did delete_machine get replaced by
delete_host? Was that when hosttable management was moved into Moira?
