Re: Has Anyone Used Cfengine With Dynamic IP Addresses?

[Alec H. Peterson]

Is the hostname here the FQDN or just the first part?

Alec

--On Saturday, October 4, 2003 0:41 +0200 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> Give 2.1.0b4 a try, setting the control variable HostnameKeys = ( true ).
>
> You will have to go through the key exchange again, or rename the key
> files, but this will make cfengine use keynames user-hostname instead of
> user-ipaddress.
>
> There is a loss of exchange security in the sense that one must trust DNS
> or a name assertion, but once the keys are exchanged, there is no
> difference,
>
> I have not tested this new option, so please give it a go.
>
> hope this helps.
> Mark
>
> On  1 Oct, Rasheda M Menzies wrote:
> > In the book, Automating Unix and Linux Administration, it says that, "It
> > is difficult, if not impossible, to use cfengine with dynamic
> > IPaddresses".  Has anyone actually had success with Red Hat clients, ie
> > laptops, which go on/off network at any time and loses their IP
> > addresses?  If so, please let me know how this
> > is done in cfengine.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rasheda
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