[nv-l] Off Topic: Question about the snmpd daemon?

Subject:	[nv-l] Off Topic: Question about the snmpd daemon?
From:	"Bursik, Scott {PBSG}" <Scott.Bursik AT pbsg DOT com>
To:	"Nv-L (nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com)" <nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com>
Date:	Fri, 21 May 2004 11:15:25 -0500

I have a question about the snmpd daemon specifically on AIX. I am running
version 5.1. In the snmpd.conf documentation at the top of the file it shows
an example of allowing an IP address to access the SNMP agent on a node as
listed here:

community  public       156.81.226.235 255.255.255.128

I wanted to try an alias instead of an IP address so if I needed to move the
polling to another node I could do it without changing all of the
configuration files.

community  public       alias.pepsi.com 255.255.255.128

It worked by I had a behavior question? Does the snmpd daemon look up the
alias name on initialization or when queried?

Thanks,

Scott Bursik