New Feature: sorting of service- and hostnames in a domain-aware manner

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Wed Apr 28 19:22:48 CEST 2004


Lars Volker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for that explanation.
> I've done a patch which also does compile. What it does is sort 
> hostnames in a domains-aware manner by parsing them dot-wise beginning 
> at the end. It's not a big thing, so I'd suggest reading the source....
> 
> Does anyone think this would be of some use for one??
> 
Probably, yes. At least if it gets coupled with some nice code for 
sorting IP-addresses the same way (without resolving them, ofcourse), 
since they're sorted 'the other way around'.

> Thanks
> Lars
> 
> 
> Lars Volker schrieb:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> wouldn't it be nice if nagios respectively the status.cgi would be 
>> able to recognize, if two host- or servicenames are domain names, 
>> which means dot-separated (like blabla.foo.bar.org.uk) and then sort 
>> the list in an domain-aware kind of way?
>>
>> Example:
>> current behaviour:
>> a.x.org
>> a.y.org
>> b.x.org
>> b.y.org
>>
>> desired behaviour
>> a.x.org
>> b.x.org
>> a.y.org
>> b.y.org
>>
>> I've written a few lines of code, implementing that feature, but i 
>> edited the source directly and have never worked with patching stuff. 
>> So if someone would like to explain, i'll provide a patch. Anyways the 
>> code is just about 9 lines long, simple hack only, but working. There 
>> also should be some kind of switch to toggle the behaviour.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Lars
>>
>>
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