Well I for one would like the option of using addresses rather than names, I appreciate
the issue of dependancy but frankly for our network, if the DNS is broke, then it's all
broke anyway. Could we do this with some sort of variable in bb-network.sh, set to use
IP address by default and could be administratively modified to use names?
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean MacGuire [mailto:sean@www.maclawran.ca]
Sent: 28 September 1999 14:23
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} DHCP and BB
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out what the deal is with BB and DHCP, I can see
> in the code that there seem to have been some attempts in the past to
> deal with dynamic hosts, but I can't quite figure out what the current
> state of play is.
BB supports DHCP everywhere except 'ping'. (i.e. BBDISPLAY and BBPAGER
can be dhcp addresses, etc).
> The nearest I can figure out is that currently if I put in 0.0.0.0 for
> the IP address and list a host name then BB will work but won't do a
> connectivity test to that host.
At the moment (actually for a long time now), we only ping IP addresses
(and not names). This means that in the case of DHCP (0.0.0.0) - the
ping test is disabled automatically.
Problem was based on the idea "what if the DNS is done" - we're adding
a dependancy where none is needed (this combined with the ability to
use completely bogus names in the bb-hosts file), meant that in order
to avoid confusion, it was just disallowed. Also since a name can return
more than one IP address, the results can be misleading as well.
> Does anyone have any ideas on what mods might be necessary to get BB to ping
> based on hostname rather than IP address. Then I could enter in the names
> of my DHCP assigned machines and not particularly care about their current
> IP address.
The ping code is in bb-network.sh... does anyone out there have an opinion
on whether to bring this back or not?
--
Sean MacGuire, Reality Engineering the BB Ministry of Truth
sean@bb4.com http://www.bb4.com
+1 514 630 6415
"Looking down the barrel of another day"
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