[rancid] Setting up a hosts file for Rancid

[Todd Heide]

Hi List, I am looking for a way to set up a hosts record, whether using
DNS or whatever so that I can put the host name of the router into
Rancid instead of the IP address, and make it easy for others here who
are not DNS, or hosts savvy to add a device to Rancid. Currently Rancid
is in a state of influx as it has all IP's and no names, so if we try to
locate a config, we need to look up the IP of the router and hope we
have the right one. I use a web front for all admin(except .cloginrc)
of Rancid, so if I need to setup a host file for it to resolve off of, I
can create a script for that as well. I currently tried to create an
internal zone off the DNS server, but did something wrong so it didn't
work. I can do it on a Windoze box, but we don't have one for Rancid to
use. The DNS zone I created was domain.hosts.zone, but got SOA and NS
errors, so the zone was ignored.



Thanks

Todd

[alex]

Post by Todd Heide
Hi List, I am looking for a way to set up a hosts record, whether using
DNS or whatever so that I can put the host name of the router into
Rancid instead of the IP address, and make it easy for others here who
are not DNS, or hosts savvy to add a device to Rancid.

/etc/hosts works fine for me, although I must admit a script that hit all the
config files for me would be great.

alexd