RE: FW: draft-ietf-disman-remops-mib-v2-09.txt

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Juergen Quittek wrote:
>>>> I have a number of concerns about NSLOOKUP part of the MIB mobule.
>>>> 
>>>> 1) It's not clear whether the host, given e.g., 'dns' as a lookup
>>>> type, is only supposed to make a DNS lookup (which is what 'nslookup'
>>>> does), or also consult /etc/hosts or equivalent (also possibly NIS or
>>>> other similar directories as specified by /etc/nsswitch.conf or
>>>> equivalent) if appropriate.
>>> 
>>> Possibly that could be clarified somewhat. I think it is an implementation
>>> matter (the way I interpret it), but even that could be stated.
>>> If WG chair and author/editor agree, pls sens a proposed piece of text
>>> that I can tell RFC-Editor to add.
>> 
>> Agreed.  I don't think this is a major issue itself, but if the intent is
>> to give consistent results across implementations, some things need to be
>> said about this.
>
> Would you be fine with the change I proposed in a message to Joel Halpern:
>
> OLD:
> 3.3.3.  lookupResultsTable
>
>  The lookupResultsTable is used to store the results of lookup
>  operations.  The lookupResultsTable is initially indexed by the same
>
> NEW:
> 3.3.3.  lookupResultsTable
>
>  The lookupResultsTable is used to store the results of lookup
>  operations.  Results to be reported here SHOULD be results of
>  a lookup function that is commonly used by applications at the
>  managed node. This implies that results are not necessarily
>  consistent with the results of a pure DNS lookup at the
>  managed node, but may be influenced by local lookup tables or
>  other source of information, depending on the configuration of
>  the managed node.
>
>  The lookupResultsTable is initially indexed by the same

Yes, looks excellent.

(FWIW, I think I've been convinced now the NSLOOKUP TC problem is 
something that needs to be addressed on a different forum, and the 
current approach seems good enough for now.)

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