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Hey, I think we've gone and done something somebody wants!
I just spoke with the Iconic Map PL, and the word is that with DECmcc
V1.2 you won't need to put the dot (.) in front of the DNS name during
registration. That is, the work is already done, so you'll get it for
sure, and you can register better. FCL still requires the dot.
Basically, it is a parsing issue, or "how do you tell a Phase4name from
a Fullname?" The answer is only that you can tell by the dot, so you
needed the dot. The Iconic Map folks have fixed their dialog box to
expect it.
There is talk about enhancements to the map's display of names, but I
don't know about that.
Work has also been done to allow a Node4 registration to succeed even
if it isn't already in the DECnet database on the node in question.
The Register command will allow:
REGISTER NODE4 .fullname SYNONYM nodename ADDRESS nodeaddr
and if you've got the privs you need to modify the phase 4 database,
we'll add the node to the management stations decnet databases, and
proceed with the registration.
We think that'll make registration feel a lot more friendly.
The SNMP stuff is hidden under a special directory. There was some
strange fizz about how iphosts are named differently or something.
I don't know the details, but the upshot is that things ain't always
what they look like.
Enjoy,
-Jim Carey
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| You aren't missing anything. The SNMP AM currently does not support
the fullname identifier. Because of this there is alot of special casing
throughout the system to work around this. One of the work arounds was
for the register directive to store the internet name entered in the
MCC_IP directory. I believe it also changes the dots in the internet name
to underscores.
So, excluding the SNMP AM, the register directive requires the
entity identifier passed in e_in have a datatype of fullname. It is
stored in DNS in the location specified.
/Jim
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