Re: proxy remotehost name resolution

Robert Story <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:54:31 -0300 Nico wrote:
N> This leads to problems if local equipment startup is in wrong
N> order (dns after snmpd).
N> 
N> Other scenario with the same problem is if the IP/name mapping
N> changes with snmpd running, Either because of /etc/host edit or
N> dynamic IP assignment in DNS.
N> 
N> It keeps proxying to the original IP address.
N> 
N> There is any flag to force dns resolution in each query? or
N> other option? or it is a design decision (or bug).

There is no flag for that. I think it falls somewhere in between a
bug and a design decision. The problem with doing DNS every time is
that it causes the whole agent to hang if there is a problem with
DNS lookups. So I don't think always doing a lookup will ever be
the default, but I can see accepting a patch to add a flag for
this.  If you can code that patch, submit it to the patch tracker.
If not, then you could submit a feature request.

Robert

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