From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 17:22:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA2437B401 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A409643F85 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:22:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8B8BD10BFA8; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:22:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:22:54 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Oliver Fromme Message-ID: <20030809002252.GB53916@FreeBSD.org> References: <3F2A9595.5010302@jonny.eng.br> <200308082326.h78NQsuu065234@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DBIVS5p969aUjpLe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308082326.h78NQsuu065234@lurza.secnetix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 00:22:57 -0000 --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [CC trimmed] On 2003.08.09 01:26:54 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: >=20 > Jo=E3o Carlos Mendes Lu=EDs wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > [...] > > > All of that might sound complicated, but it really isn't > > > that bad. The collector can be a small shell script using > > > /usr/bin/fetch or automated ncftp. The extension to > > > sysinstall shouldn't be too difficult either. I would be > > > willing to work on the collector thing at least, and maybe > > > also on the sysinstall part (if time permits). > > > > Wouldn't this be much easier in perl? >=20 > I do not like perl, but that task is indeed a bit heavy for > a shell script. >=20 > When I had a few minutes of free time, I coded a rough draft > of such a script. I took the liberty to write it in Python. This is really cool! I think it would be very useful to have something like this available, and updated regularly. > It doesn't do any DNS zone transfers, so it is not affected > by reluctant DNS servers. Instead, the list of CC subdomains > is hardcoded. For each subdomain, it starts at ftp.$DOMAIN, > ftp1.$DOMAIN and increases the number until a host cannot be > resolved. That seems to be a better approach than relying > on zone transfers. One little problem is when a number is skipped. E.g. your script doesn't pick up ftp3.dk.freebsd.org, since there is no ftp2. I don't know if there are any other special cases like this, but it's not that important right now. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ND7ch9pcDSc1mlERAvDTAJ9Cqi7AOdIWQ+tvKrq+uBqbSbLuNACgpFX6 D9tpEc7YXV7BW0NFppFerqo= =6POV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe--