Re: [9fans] ndb and FQDNs.

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> writes

| 
| > on a unix machine:
| >         ; host dexter-peak
| >         ; host dexter-peak.quanstro.net
| >
| > both return a value.
| 
| because both look up dexter-peak.quanstro.net,
| the first one only implicitly.

i've worked for more than one registrar and more
than one registry. please don't remind me how it works. ;-)

| dom is for dns names.  sys is for local system names
| (yes there is life without dns).

thanks. i've got that straight, now.

| 
| > also, how do i enter a multi-homed machine?
| 
| put in a second ip= attribute.

didn't work for me. that's why i asked.
ndb/mkdb drops the entry on the floor. i must be doing something wrong.
here's what i had:

ip=192.168.0.4 ip=192.168.0.1 sys=dexter-peak dom=dexter-peak.quanstro.net

how should it be?

| why are you using ndb on unix?

besides plan9 envy, upas is pretty tight with ndb.
(as are many other plan9 applications.) 
i thought that it'd be easier to port ndb than to 
completely rearrange upas.
i was not planning on using ndb to store much data.
just enough to get by and then have a magic word
in the ndb database that does a call out to the host
system's dns (or yp or whatever).

- erik