Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations Manual

How to Define DNS Names
Building and Modifying the DNS Database
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Figure 4-4. Dependencies and Relationships of SSTYPE Names
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COMPOSITETYPEALIASTYPE SSOBJECT
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In an order-restricted relationship, a solid arrow line is used, and the
dependent name appears below the required name. Relationships shown
with dashed arrow lines are not order-restricted. The name from which
an arrow originates is specified in the definition of the name at the arrowhead.
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DNSDOMAIN
SSTYPE
When you add an SSTYPE definition, you specify the following:
The name of the SSTYPE (such as LINE)
The name of the subsystem that defines it (such as AM6520)
The object-type number (such as 5), as defined in the programmatic interface of
the subsystem
Additionally, you specify the following default parameters and restrictions on objects
of this type:
Whether an object of this type must have a manager.
Whether it can have DUPLICATES (if there can be another object with the same
subsystem-object name but a different manager).
What format its name must have. Restrictions on the format of an object name
apply only to the subsystem-defined name, not to aliases you assign to the object.
The format attribute is defined in the syntax description of the ADD SSTYPE
command in Section 7.
What domain should apply by default to definitions of objects of this type.
Whether objects of this type should automatically have their subsystem-defined
names defined as aliases (EXTERNAL attribute).