[Nagiosplug-devel] Testcase for is_hostname (was something else)
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Wed Nov 1 12:25:45 CET 2006
Ton Voon wrote:
>
> On 27 Oct 2006, at 15:50, sean finney wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 15:01 +0100, Ton Voon wrote:
>>
>>> Andreas, I'm not sure what you would like to see. Is it:
>>> "nonfqdn-but-ends-in-dot." => 0
>>> "otherwise.something." => 1
>>
>> i'd say something ending in '.' should be considered a valid hostname no
>> matter what (assume there are no other problems with it). whether or
>> not it *resolves* ought to be an orthogonal issue.
>
> Sounds fair. I guess you may want to test the domain "com." or if you
> implement an internal DNS with your own top level domain (we use
> "altinity" as our top level).
>
> OK, I'll change the test and alter the code to reflect.
>
>> or is the test also testing resolvable domains?
>
> No - it is purely a textual test. To save for a later time, but there's
> an argument to not bother doing this type of check at all and have an
> "unresolveable hostname" caught in exceptions later down in any plugins.
>
This sounds by far the best solution. If we *do* have this check we need
to grok /etc/resolv.conf lines properly and see if "no-dots-anywhere"
can still be resolved.
Imo, we gain nothing for a lot of work by having the "does it look like
a hostname?" check before "can we resolve it?". This is especially true
as we need to try to resolve the hostname anyway if we think it's a
valid one and there's always of chance of false rejects which I'm sure
will annoy people no end.
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