[853] in Moira
Re: [madpit@MIT.EDU: Request for AGGIE cname to be freed]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dkk@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 17 17:43:46 1995
From: dkk@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 17:43:27 -0500
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>, hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Cc: op@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Theodore Ts'o's message of Tue, 17 Jan 1995 14:37:01 +0500,
<9501171937.AA21937@dcl.MIT.EDU>
Ted> It's a bug in the Moira server that I'm pretty sure Tom knows
Ted> about. If there's a CNAME for a machine, you must delete it
Ted> before you delete the machine, or you're left with a dangling
Ted> reference.
I deleted the cname with the moira client, and got no errors in the
process. I vaguely remember the bug you're referring to. Perhaps it
has been fixed (enough to allow deletion of old cnames)?
Ron> I like the behavior in b [prohibit the deletion until the user
Ron> deletes the cname] because it forces you to think about what
Ron> you're doing.
I agree. Some cnames (eg: sipb, athena, athena-dist) shouldn't go
away by surprise.
