[rancid] RANCID Router Login

[Lee]

On 10/12/17, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 07:47:10PM +0000, Munoz-Persinger, Axel @ CSG - CSE:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our organization uses RANCID for gathering data from our Cisco routers,
>> but we recently faced an issue with a change we're trying to make.
>>
>> We simply want to change what the address that the scripts use to log into
>> the routers. Let's say in the routers.db file we have:
>> Router1:cisco:up
>> Router2:cisco:up
>> Router3:cisco:up
>>
>> We'd like to change it to:
>> Router1.XYZ:cisco:up
>> Router2.XYZ:cisco:up
>> Router3.XYZ:cisco:up
>>
>>
>> We didn't want to change the actual router names in the routers.db file,
>> since this would most likely have other side effects like modifying the
>> CVS. We tried changing clogin:750(ish) from
>> if {[login $router $ruser $userpswd $passwd $enapasswd $cmethod
>> $cyphertype]} {
>>
>> to
>> if {[login $router.XYZ $ruser $userpswd $passwd $enapasswd $cmethod
>> $cyphertype]} {
>>
>> However, by watching the tcpdump output, we see that it's still reaching
>> out to the original address.
>>
>> Do you have any ideas that could help us?
>
> leave the old name and change the address it resolved to in dns/hostsfile.

+1 for changing the address in dns

if you don't like/can't do that option, add
  search XYZ.l3t.com
in resolv.conf so that the first dns lookup for foo is foo.xyz.l3t.com

see  http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/resolv.conf.5.html
              The search list is normally determined from the local domain
              name; by default, it contains only the local domain name.
              This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path
              following the search keyword with spaces or tabs separating
              the names.

Regards,
Lee