Technical Architecture Deliverables Guidelines Members Discussions Misson Statement NetDB, version 2, has been in operation since 1990 providing Stanford departmental network administrators with the ability to manage names and addresses for SUNet host computers and other network devices. NetDB data populates several core infrastructure services, including the Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration, and AppleTalk routing. These enhancements are based on requirements from SUNet network designers, departmental network administrators, NetDB2 administrators, and ITSS management.
Some enhancements provide additional flexibility in the representation of network data elements.
These include supporting variable-length subnet masks for networks, assignment of names to router interfaces, named node groups, nodes with multiple specialized roles, etc. Other enhancements improve the management of NetDB data itself. These include node expiration dates, representation of people by SUNet ID,more flexible security groups, an extensible data model, custom node data fields, etc. Reporting will be made more flexible and user-controllable. The following list are the goals of this project.