Re: Is there an SNMP MIB object which provides system's fully-qualified domain name (besides sysName)

[Kristine Adamson <adamson@us.ibm.com>]

Juergen,
   Thanks for the info.  We
have been asked to provide the fully-qualified domain name of a host from
SNMP on our platform.  That's why I raised the question.

Kristine Adamson
IBM z/OS Communications Server: TCP/IP Development
Internet e-mail:adamson@us.ibm.com


Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
wrote on 02/25/2005 11:07:19 AM:

> 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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