LDAP and hosts

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org>]

So my network is now nicely using LDAP for user authenticaion and groups.
I recently discovered there is an LDAP schema for hosts as well.  However
it seems to have a flaw--there seems to be no provision for aliases.

I.e. where in /et/hosts I would have:

192.168.1.1 foo.isp.com www loghost foo

my LDIF file has to look like this:

dn: cn=foo.isp.com,ou=Hosts,dc=isp,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: ipHost
cn: foo.isp.com
ipHostNumber: 192.168.1.1

dn: cn=www,ou=Hosts,dc=isp,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: ipHost
cn: www
ipHostNumber: 192.168.1.1

dn: cn=loghost,ou=Hosts,dc=isp,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: ipHost
cn: loghost
ipHostNumber: 192.168.1.1

dn: cn=foo,ou=Hosts,dc=isp,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: ipHost
cn: foo
ipHostNumber: 192.168.1.1


Is that right?  Although it works, it seems unecessarily verbose to me.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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