[et-mgmt-tools] Service discovery for cobbler and koan with Avahi

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:12 -0700, Peter Wright wrote:
> please do not put any hard coded hostnames in the koan code base.

It's generally a good practice to have CNAME's for all your services, so
that clients don't need to change if you move a service to another host.

> two immediate problems crop to mind:
> 
> 1) a host named cobbler already exists and does not run cobblerd
> 2) the system becomes coupled to a working DNS system

True, though in both cases, people can still use '--server' to avoid
either of these. In other words: for people that continue to use koan
the way it is today, nothing changes. For those who want to rely on
their infrastructure to provide some sort of name lookup, omitting
'--server' from the command line will jsut do that.

David