[851] in Moira
Re: [madpit@MIT.EDU: Request for AGGIE cname to be freed]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Jan 17 14:37:21 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 14:37:01 +0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: dkk@MIT.EDU
Cc: hoffmann@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: dkk@MIT.EDU's message of Tue, 17 Jan 95 14:18:54 -0500,
<9501171918.AA20575@imbrium.MIT.EDU>
From: dkk@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 14:18:54 -0500
> Are you folks willing to give up "aggie"? -Ron
Sure. I think dbck should probably check for these obsolete cnames,
since I don't see any point to keeping a cname without a hostname.
(That's very much like an imembers entry (a list membership) without
the accompanying list -- something which dbck does clean up
automatically, if I'm not mistaken.)
I've deleted the cname AGGIE from Moira.
It's a bug in the Moira server that I'm pretty sure Tom knows about. If
there's a CNAME for a machine, you must delete it before you delete the
machine, or you're left with a dangling reference. The Moira server
should really either (a) automatically nuke the cname, or (b) prohibit
the deletion until the user deletes the cname.
Of course, dbck should really do the right thing and nuke the obselete
cnames too.
- Ted
