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

[Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>]

david raistrick wrote:
> 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, 
Communities ;-)

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Leigh