[c-nsp] DNS Naming conventions for Switches

[Mark Tinka]

On Friday, September 03, 2010 05:11:29 am Kameron Gasso 
wrote:

> Under the guise of "managing my priorities" (read:
> "laziness"), I don't generally create A records to match
> for interface IPs -- I've honestly never found a
> practical use for it.  Our NMS connects by IP, I don't
> connect to those addresses frequently enough to warrant
> doing so by name, and I've yet to see a traceroute
> implementation that cares about matching
> forward/reverse.

We do the same.

A + PTR records for Loopback (or Management interface if 
Loopback is not applicable), and then only PTR records for 
physical interfaces.

We haven't seen much use to have A records for physical 
interfaces.

Cheers,

Mark.
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