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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Device and interface naming is a fairly religious topic in most places. I > snapped a screenshot from one of our docs and uploaded a picture: > http://img842.imageshack.us/i/interfacenaming.png/ > or > http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4277/interfacenaming.png > Hopefully one of those 2 links works. > > We basically use the abbreviated interface name from the table linked > above. > interface.device.[sub].domain.com > > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Miehs > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [c-nsp] DNS Naming conventions for Switches > > Hi all, > > have spent the last couple of hours looking and haven't been able to find a > satisfactory solution to naming cisco siwtch interfaces. > > I am currently looking after a lot of Cisco 6500s and would like to clean > up > DNS so that reverse lookups = forward etc. > > I would like to suggest that we do the following: > > lo1.switchname.domain.com > gi1-1-1.switchname.domain.com > po1.switchname.domain.com > v1.switchname.domain.com > te2-1-1.switchname.domain.com > > switchname.domain.com CNAME -> lo1.switchname.domain.com > > lo1 (loopback 1) is the management IP address of the switch. > > I have noticed however that some NMS solutions uses the reverse lookup of > the entered address (in this case 'switchname') for filling in the name in > the software. > > Does anyone have any better suggestions, or should I just enter the > management interface into DNS without the 'lo1' and on the switches without > loopbacks? > I have the same issue with the 3750s - although there the management > interface is a vlan interface, and not a loopback. > > Thanks for your comments, > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
