Re: Aliased names.

[Mark . Burgess]

On 12 Apr, Ronan KERYELL wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:26:02 +0200 (MET DST), address@hidden said:
> 
>     Mark> There is code for this, but it doesn't work, because DNS is not
>     Mark> predictable. I can't remember if I figured out what the problem
>     Mark> was...If anyone want's to figure out how to coax the CNAME
>     Mark> aliases out of DNS, please be my guest. It should be easy,
>     Mark> but....
> 
> It sounds to me that what we are interested in is a map "name or IP ->
> aliases" but the DNS CNAME tables are "aliases -> name" map.
> 
> The only way I can figure out is to test the DNS for every new cfengine class 
> is
> met to see if we can find out one of our IP adresses again.
> 
> That would also solve the multiple name -> same IP case by the way...
> 


It is supposedly possible to extract all names and aliases for an IP
address from the C structures, but when I tried it did not work
as expected.

Mark

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