Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:22:54 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/ Message-ID: <20030809002252.GB53916@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200308082326.h78NQsuu065234@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <3F2A9595.5010302@jonny.eng.br> <200308082326.h78NQsuu065234@lurza.secnetix.de>
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--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--
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