[3005] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: registration of linux machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Sep 27 09:29:18 2000
To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 2000 09:29:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:51:47 -0400"
Message-Id: <sjmem262cbd.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:
> While I was thinking about this, it occurred to me that we should check
> using stella that the IP address the user gives is registered in moira
> to the hostname the user gives. Is there any way to access stella
> before all the packages have been installed?
I presume you mean that you want to compare the hostname resolved from
the IP address to the username they supply as their name for the
registration requests and make sure they match in moira? Matching the
hostname to the IP address is easy, it's called DNS, and it's already
done. ;-)
> Alex.
-derek
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