Re: [staf-users] Need Suggestion

[Sai R. Purandhar-B. <B2...@fr...>]

Thanks for the reply Sharon,

I'll add my comment to the feature.

I'll surely look into the source code whether i can contribute any
changes. I'll definitely get back to you on this.

 

Thanks,

Sairam

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From: Sharon Lucas [mailto:lu...@us...] 
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:36 PM
To: Sai Ram Purandhar-B22305
Cc: sta...@li...
Subject: Re: [staf-users] Need Suggestion

 


STAF currently requires that it can successfully do a reverse lookup on
the hostname. This is important for people using DHCP as the dynamic IP
address changes often so some people need to use the host name to
determine the STAF trust level, etc. We have an open feature request,
#1346181 "Add option to make STAF _NOT_ lookup hostname", that we'll
look at implementing sometime in the future. If that feature would be
helpful to you, add a comment to it explaining why.  If you needed this
feature implemented sooner, feel free to look at the STAF source code
and implement a change to allow configuring STAF to disable hostname
lookup and contributing it back to the project. 

Note that if you are use a IP address when submitting a STAF service
request, STAF initiailly makes the connection via the IP address.  But,
once STAF is connected, it tries to fill in some data about the remote
side, including its hostname (for which we do a DNS lookup).  This
happens on both ends of the connection (i.e.g when STAFProc receives the
connection, via an accept(), it will try to get the hostname of the
client on the other side).  It seems reasonable enough on the client
side to not do the hostname lookup if you specify the IP address to
begin with.  But, I'm not sure what the best way would be for STAFProc
to determine whether it should do the hostname lookup (perhaps via a
configuration setting in STAF.cfg?) 

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Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin,   lu...@us...
(512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313




"Sai Ram Purandhar-B22305" <B2...@fr...> 

02/18/2010 06:41 AM 

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Hi, 
  
I'm trying to test a gateway product with different networking
protocols. 
  
As STAF uses hostnames for end-end communication, it's giving me hard
time in testing the product where DNS is involved 
  
Even if i automate, most of the time i had to do some system
configuration manually. 
  
Can any one suggest me some ideas? 
  
I was thinking, how can i disable hostname lookup in STAF communication.

  
Thanks in advance, 
Sairam 
 
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