Re: [Planetlab-users] Reporting slice access problems

[Emil S. <si...@MI...>]

> 2) when you tell us the nodes that you cannot login to please tell us the
> DNS names e.g., planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu, rather than the IP
> addresses.  You will often get a faster response because we can tell you
> right away, for example, that planetlab11.millennium.berkeley.edu does not
> have its CD-ROM mounted, but matching 169.229.50.89 makes us go search a
> list of nodes.

Just for clarification, will any equivalent DNS name suffice?
For example, berkeley3.plab.lcs.mit.edu? Or berkeley3.lists.planet-lab.org?
Does it have to be planetlab3.millennium.berkeley.edu?  I want to make
sure that I'll get the fastest response possible if I ever have a
problem; sometimes I use these aliases in my scripts and they don't
report the CNAME of the host.

Incidentally, you might find the 'host' command useful:

$ host 169.229.50.89
89.50.229.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer planetlab11.Millennium.Berkeley.EDU

And if you have a whole big list of IP addresses, you can relatively
easily reverse-resolve them using adnsresfilter [*].

[*] http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=adns