DNS/DHCP generation script needs a name

[yesthattom]

I have a system that takes a database of IP addresses, hostnames and MAC addresses and builds:
1. Your DNS configuration files.
2. Your DHCP configuration files.
3. Your DNS zones for your external DNS servers (i.e. hides hosts that you don't want to expose)

It works great. Really great. Good enough to submit to the LISA 2004 conference.

However, I don't have a good name for it. I was trying to find a TMBG or Babylon5 reference to name it after, but there's no cheese down that hole.

Suggestions?

Comments

[pir.livejournal.com]

We call our system that does all that (and auto-DHCP-registration) Cardinal, and it's ben presented at LISA already :)

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

This is better and only 1000 lines of code. Natch!

I'll research animals that are preditors of cardinals.

:-)

[misteropinion.livejournal.com]

Foxes, bobcats and feral cats, raptors, possibly pine martens. That would be my quick list of cardinal predators. And llamas, of course. ¡Cuidado!

and it might be even less...

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

if you put the dns hosts & dhcp bootservers in a .conf file and parse it through.. :)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Maybe if the Cardinals (the baseball team) have some traditional foe, or another team that consistently stuffs them?

[jss]

Call it Pope, 'cause it outranks a Cardinal?

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

[Old] Possum? (cf. "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot)

1. Cats eat birds. ;)
2. The poem is about identifying cats
3. In the poem cats have three names (http://freepages.pets.rootsweb.com/~phelps/cats2.htm#The%20Naming%20of%20Cats) that roughly parallel hostname, IP, and MAC.
4. The last section (http://freepages.pets.rootsweb.com/~phelps/cats2.htm#The%20Ad-dressing%20of%20Cats) (namely the last few lines) roughly parallels DNS resolution.
5. A cursory search on Google turns up no other unix programs named possum.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

Ok, techniclaly it's a collection of poems, but you get the picture.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

WOW! That's an incredible match! Thanks!

That's definitely going on the list.

--tal

[cpj.livejournal.com]

Well, if you want to go with the religious idea and the B5 idea, why not call it Crusade!

I'll just sit back and wait for Josh to come over and kill me.

[jss]

Nah. It'd orphan Bear.

I will, however, get even.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

The B5 reference could have something to do with the fact that a host is The One that is three. (dns, ip, and MAC)

[jss]

Then why not "Entil'Zha"?

[cpj.livejournal.com]

Define Entil'Zha.

I can't recall that B5 reference.

[jss]

The Minbari word for the leader of the Rangers (Anla'Shok). True, in the continuity we've seen there're five of them (Lenonn, Sinclair, Delenn, Sheridan, and Ivanova), not three, but that gives Tom room for extension.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Either it's doing something a lot more complicated than you've described here, or there's no need for a 1000 lines of code, surely!

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I was being flip.

It's 1,000 lines of code, and does a lot less than Cardinal. However, I think it's easier to install and more appropriate for small sites.

[jss]

Incidentally, I believe it's first used in "Grey 17 Is Missing" though it may have been used back in "The Parliament of Dreams" too (I didn't go back and check the DVDs).