[PL #12913] can't use private net for private planet lab?

[Brian K. Jones via RT]

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Ok, I got past the check for the private address by using DHCP, but that 
seems like sort of an arbitrary check for something that, really, if 
we're packaging this, nobody should care about except the local site's 
admin.

Also, the form checks for a valid FQDN, which also seems a bit arbitrary 
and useless for a setup that is strictly for testing. If I entered a 
totally bogus domain, it was happy, but now I'm forced to use a bogus 
domain. Just let me enter a hostname and go. It's just a test environment.

My thinking is that, if I was an admin at a site that was considering 
deployment of a private planetlab, I would probably start out my testing 
pretty much like I'm doing it now so I could get to know the knobs and 
buttons, but all of these checks make for a lot of tripping and falling, 
and for little real useful purpose, so far as I can tell.

brian.

Aaron Klingaman via RT wrote:
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> I use private addresses for my nodes in vmware, it appears the add node 
>   functions only checks for private addresses if you don't use dhcp (set 
> it to static).
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> ak
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> Brian K. Jones via RT wrote:
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>> Subject: can't use private net for private planet lab?
>>
>> I tried to register a node on the planetlab management site which 
>> resides on my private plc server. Since I'm doing my testing in vmware, 
>> I'm currently using private IP addresses for my virtual hosts, which 
>> should be ok  as long as I'm just dealing with my local workstation. 
>> However, the site rejects the node registration with the error 
>> "Reserved, private network addresses cannot be used"
>>
>> I guess I can fudge some IP addresses here, but if there isn't a 
>> technical reason for this requirement, it should probably go away. What 
>> if I'm an admin running a planetlab in a closed lab on a hub or 
>> something? Sure, some goofy admins with a flagrant disregard for proper 
>> IP usage will use random, otherwise-publicly-routable/in-use addresses, 
>> but it's not really the right thing to do. If I'm testing, I want to use 
>> a private IP.
>>
>> Let me know if there's a workaround here, or if I've missed something 
>> crucial.
>> Thanks :)
>> brian.
>>
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