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Re: Is there an SNMP MIB object which provides system's fully-qualified domain name (besides sysName)
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:55:31AM -0500, Steve Moulton wrote:
> This would probably have to be a table, since
> each IP address associated with a machine might have
> a domain name (if you include CNAMEs, more than one).
>
> Since IP addresses can be spread across interfaces, and
> each interface can have more than one IP address, this problem
> can't be fixed w/ a single object.
>
> In other words, the requirements on such an object would have
> changed over the past few years. Looks like fresh work might
> be needed.
I don't think it actually makes sense to replicate the whole DNS
information on the device. As usual, the first question to ask is
what the problem is to solve, not how many MIB objects one can
define. So what is the problem here?
/js
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