Jumpstart name resolution
2007-12-25 9:48:00
thanks to all those who responded
Imre Kolos Imre.Kolos@eth.ericsson.se
EG Keizer keie@cs.vu.nl
Mark Halverson Mhalver@templeton.com
Paul Kowalenko PAUL.KOWALENKO@ny.frb.org
Matthew Fansher fanshem@gcm.com
Danny Johnson djohnson@nbserv1.rsc.raytheon.com
Matthew Stier Matthew.Stier@fnc.fujitsu.co
Matthew Stier pretty well summed it up when he said
"It sounds like you are trying to coerce technology to resolve a policy problem"
Which is absolutely true. The security standards being pushed on us have obviously
been written by a group of people who don't have to run a real, large network with
real users and applications and a mix of platforms and architectures.
There are many items within the standard which are impractical.
Fortunately however it looks like I will be able to roll back this particular change
because of this and some other problems it has caused.
Again thanks to all the others who offered various alternative suggestions -
especially EG Keizer who had come up against this before and showed how
to force bootparamd to use your own version of gethostbyname().
Cheers.
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