G'day JM,
Just my $0.02, but storing IP addresses instead of hostnames would
probably only work if the machine the repository is hosted on has a
static IP. For machines with dynamic IP addresses (eg. that use DHCP)
this could cause some pretty big headaches.
There are a couple of ways to determine if A == A.B.C. The one that
I've seen used is to determine the IP address for hostname A, then
perform a reverse DNS lookup on that IP address to find out what the
fully qualified name (according to DNS) is. While this is possible, I
wouldn't recommend it, since it makes a large number of (IMVHO)
unacceptable assumptions (ie. that the server has a single hostname /
IP address, that that IP address is listed in DNS, etc. etc.).
Which isn't to say that I don't think that the original request is
unreasonable - I'm just not sure if there's a practical solution.
Cheers,
Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: JM Ibanez [mailto:jmibanez@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:08am
> To: Dale Worley
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: snv URL does not use FQDN
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:35:26 -0500, Dale Worley
> <dworley@pingtel.com> wrote:
> > It is a good idea, but I'm not sure there is a workable
> method to implement
> > it. As far as I know, there isn't any standardized way to
> translate "A"
> > into "A.B.C", that is, to get the fully-qualified version
> of an abbreviated
> > machine name.
>
> Isn't it possible for the svn client to store the IP instead? (i.e. if
> A maps to IP w.x.y.z, and A.B.C maps to IP w.x.y.z, then A ~= A.B.C?)
>
> Also, isn't it possible to check that the domain of a particular
> machine while resolving the address of A (i.e., if machine has domain
> B.C., then all calls for A ~= A.B.C)?
>
> --
> JM Ibanez
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