[hobbit] Hobbit doing DNS lookup instead of using bb-hosts address?

[Buchan Milne]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2007, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> I have it just the other way around :-) I'd rather not have to remember
> IP's for all of my hosts - that's what DNS is for. So had it not been
> for compatibility with the BB bb-hosts format, I'd probably have removed
> the IP address entirely from bb-hosts.

There are some reasons to keep it, one being the case of mail servers load 
balanced or reverse NAT'd, where you want to monitor the internal IP, but the 
realities of current email restrictions (result of forward lookup on result 
of reverse lookup being the same as the IP the connection is from) requiring 
DNS hold the mail servers NAT'd IP, without multi-view DNS in place ...

Hope that makes sense to someone else ...

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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