NetReg: Thank you and a couple of bugs ...

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From: Dan Schmiedt (willys@clemson.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 07:48:05 CDT


Hi,

First, a great big "thank-you" to everyone who has worked to make NetReg
what it is. Peter, we'll get you a bright-orange Clemson shirt just as
soon as I can get down to the store.

At Clemson University, we have recently started using NetReg in our dorms
and our wireless network. We are currently up to about 4100 registered
clients, and counting ... fast!

Things are going remarkably well, but we have run into a couple of
problems:

  + Spaces at the end of a userid. Apparently, a user will enter their
    userid with a space at the end. The POP server doesn't care, but
    when the host entry gets written, it ends up with "host joe -1 .."
    and dhcpd isn't happy about that. I fixed this with a s/\ //g.

  + Shorter userids that match part of a longer userid. For example,
    things get discombobulated when a user "mickey" registers, and then
    later "ckey" registers. When "ckey" goes to register another
    machine, the serial gets discombobulated, and dhcpd complains
    about duplicate host entries.

I haven't had a chance to figure out something for the second problem.
Any ideas?

Thanks again for netreg.

Take care,
Dan

Dan Schmiedt
Network Services
Clemson University DCIT
WILLYS@clemson.edu
(864)656-7556

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