Re: NAT, and appliances...

[Tim Nelson]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Steve Brorens wrote:

> I'm looking at using cfengine to manage and monitor a number of
> 'appliance' type boxes on a range of sites, but I'm concerned that I may
> have probelms with NAT and DNS issues,
>
> Anyone used cfengine where:
>
> - the managed systems are behind NAT-type firewalls
> - DNS may be 'odd' (they're Linux systems configured onto Windows
> networks, and their DNS names might be someting like
> box.internal.acme.com or box.local or box.acme.local - conventions at
> different customers will differ
>
> Is this likely to cause problems?
>
> How best to avoid probs?

	Well, it would probably be a good idea to ask the same question on 
the network-automation list :).

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