Hi all,

about 50% of the currently registered policies (~5200) are not FQDNs.
Therefore, according to today's discussion, i propose the following:

I will run an initial policy cleanup this night, starting from 10pm CET.
This will then be repeated in weekly intervals, starting on Monday, Feb 
7 2011, 10pm.
Monday is chosen to allow running test installations over the weekend.

A cleanup will remove all policies associated with non-reachable URIs,
A URI is considered non-reachable, if the hostname does not resolve via 
nslookup.
As a means to cut down on network traffic, cleanup will delete in a 
first sweep all hostnames without a top-level domain and try DNS lookup 
for the rest.

Best regards
Andreas


Andreas Maunz wrote on 01/31/2011 08:02 AM:
> Dear all,
>
> I see many of you using A&A facilities for test-driving their local
> installations.
> This is apparent through the use of host names without a top-level
> domain (no fully qualified domain names (FQDN), such as 'localhost').
> A problem is that people many times seem to throw away their testbeds
> and forget to clean up the policies they created.
> This results in a mass of policies taking resources unnecessarily.
> Thus, I propose a scheduled garbage collection on the policy service
> that cleans up policies without an FQDN every Sunday (let's say).
> What do you think about it?
>
> Regards
> Andreas
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