Re: Has Anyone Used Cfengine With Dynamic IP Addresses?

[Rasheda M Menzies]

Mark,
Storing the public key using hostname
would definitely help with my cfengine config on Red Hat 9.

Thanks,
Rasheda
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Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no Sent by: help-cfengine-bounces+rasheda=us.ibm.com@gnu.org 10/01/2003 12:11 AM

To:        ahp@hilander.com         cc:        Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no, help-cfengine@gnu.org         Subject:        Re: Has Anyone Used Cfengine With Dynamic IP Addresses?

Do the hosts have a fixed hostname? Would an option to store the
key according to asserted hostname be a way of getting around this?

M

On 30 Sep, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> --On Wednesday, October 1, 2003 5:59 AM +0200 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no
wrote:
> 
>>
>> There is already a mechanism for dealing with dynamic address
ranges
>> in cfservd that I believe is used successfully at Nokia. If there
>> is something wrong with that, why not send in a bug report rather
than
>> hacking IP security?
> 
> As I said, my particular application is different from the standard
> enterprise, in that I do not have a standard set of addresses that
a key 
> will always connect from.  Also, the fact that I could not populate
this 
> information ahead of time outside of the cfengine system made it not
> feasible.
> 
> Alec



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