On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:03:04AM -0500, Mike Serra wrote:
I have a simple question about the "dialup" directive in bb-hosts, the one that is supposed to come immediately after a page or subpage directive, and is used to ping a range of hosts, like a modem pool. Our sysadmin tells me that he read (in a man page online?) that this directive is not implemented. And it's acting like it isn't: we can't get it to do anything, despite trying every possible syntax that could make sense. But on the other hand people online talk about this as if they're using it just fine. So -- is it implemented? We are using hobbit version 4.2-beta-20060605.
It was implemented some time ago, but I've had reports coming in over the past couple of months that it doesn't work in the 4.2 test releases that are out. I then asked if anyone was using it, because if not I'd prefer to just rip it out instead of trying to fix it - and so far noone has stepped forward to say they really need it.
So ... do you need it ? If people want it, I'd really rather implement it quite differently than the old BB implementation - as a normal network test associated with a host, e.g.
0.0.0.0 vpnpool.foo.com # iprange=172.16.1.1-172.16.1.100Regards, Henrik