Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

[david raistrick <drais () atlasta net>]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 alex () pilosoft com wrote:

> information (i.e. source of all data). Canonical data is in
> routing/forwarding tables on routers/switches. That's the operational
> reality.
>
> The amount of data that you need to track IP allocations just doesn't fit
> well into DNS - there's no place to store customer id/service id, the
> length of allocation (is this IP part of a /28? /29?), etc. So you'll have
> to have "canonical data" somewhere else anyway.


You've never used comments in your dns?  I have yet to figure out how to 
insert a comment into my routing tables that tells me what a routing entry 
is for, but it's pretty easy to put a # line in my tinydns data or my 
bind zone file that tells me who this is for, how large it is, when it was 
allocated, by whom, and when it was deallocated and why....

After all, there are occasions when an allocated subnet won't show up in 
my routing tables....



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