Re: net-snmp and FQDN

If net-snmp is running on a dual-stack host, and you give it a dual-stack
destination, what is your desired behavior for this mode of operation?

  Bill


On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Raghava Kowshika Manjunatha via
Net-snmp-users <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> We have integrated net-snmp into our application that runs on an embedded
> system.
>
> We use net-snmp to send traps to user configured trap receivers.
>
>
>
> Until now, users could have configured only an IP address only trap
> receivers.
>
> Now, we have enhanced our system so that user can configure FQDN as well
> for trap receivers.
>
>
>
> We would like to feed user configured FQDN into net-snmp so that net-snmp
> can resolve the FQDN into an IP and determine the transport domain (UDP or
> UDP6) before sending the traps.
>
>    1. Is this possible in any of the net-snmp release versions?
>    2. If not, what workaround do you recommend?
>
> [ We currently, resolve FQDN into IP addresses and create trap session for
> each such resolved address. This works alright but has its own limitations.
> For example, DNS Server should be reachable when trap sessions are being
> created. Also if user decides to host trap receiver on a different server
> (same FQDN but different IP), then he will have to reconfigure the trap
> receiver on our device ]
>
>
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> We use the following APIs to setup net-snmp for SNMP v1/v2c/v3 traps:
>
>    1. create_trap_session
>    2. snmpTargetAddrTable_create, snmpTargetAddrTable_add,
>    snmpNotifyTable_create, snmpNotifyTable_add, snmpTargetParamTable_create,
>    snmpTargetParamTable_add
>
>
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> We currently use net-snmp-5.4.2.1-ssl-1.
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>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Raghava
>
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