Re: Has Anyone Used Cfengine With Dynamic IP Addresses?

[Mark . Burgess]

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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