[Infrastructures] state machines

Wesley Craig wes@umich.edu
Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:51:43 -0400


On 19 Sep 2006, at 22:46, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> You are misunderstanding; they work for what they do, but you'd  
> best be aware of the parts of your infrastructure that aren't  
> represented by local disk.  The recent mention of dependency on  
> CNAMEs was a better example of what I was getting at.

Oh sure, I agree with that.  But let me ask you: What is more likely  
to have the CNAME dependency problem?  A recent backup restored, or  
an old system image with months or years worth of changes applied?   
Perhaps you see what I'm getting at.

:wes