[rancid] Anyway to backup devices with '#' in hostname...other than renaming host?

[Jason Humes]

Hi
No, I mean the actual device configured hostname...when clogin tries to login, it fails to enter enable mode due to the Switch#1_Site#2 hostname.

Thanks


Jason 


-----Original Message-----
From: heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 9:27 AM
To: Jason Humes
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Anyway to backup devices with '#' in hostname...other than renaming host?

Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:22:18PM +0000, Jason Humes:
> Hi
> We've been running with RANCID for a while and have recently come upon a large group of devices we'd like to backup, but they are all numbered with '#' in the hostnames and thus RANCID fails to enter enable mode on these.  Is there any way to have RANCID escape the '#' in the hostname?
> 

put cnames/aliases in your dns/hosts file.