Re: [9fans] ndb and FQDNs.

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

lucio@proxima.alt.za writes

| 
| > how do i enter things so the second query works? also,
| 
| 	dom=dexter-peak.quanstro.net
| 
| but the querry ought to be for "dom", not "sys".  I don't know if
| multiple "sys" entries would be logical or permissible.

clearly i misread the example. i should have had sys=dexter-peak dom=dexter-peak.quanstro.net


| 
| > how do i enter a multi-homed machine?
|
| Multiple "dom" entries?  Nothing that I'm aware of says that "sys" is
| a more significant key than "dom".

multi-homed as in a machine with addresses 192.168.0.1/16, 10.0.0.1/8
and fe80::240:f4ff:febf:3a75/64. for example in bind syntax:

dexter-peak.quanstro.net.	in a	192.168.0.1
			in a	10.0.0.1
			in aa	fe80::240:f4ff:febf:3a75/64

before posting i read the ndb(7) page and tried things like this:

ip=192.168.0.4 ip=10.0.0.1 sys=dexter-peak dom=dexter-peak.quanstro.net
	smtp=dexter-peak.quanstro.net
	mx=dexter-peak.quanstro.net

but ndbmkdb drops this on the floor.

| 
| Experimenting, of course, may be the way to figure some things out.
| But as I understand it, there are very few special treatments applied
| to NDB entries, all of them documented in ndb(6).
| 
| ++L