From e919941036c6576d7085ea7fa611011cccd17fa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Dover Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:59:51 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] doc/glossary: add "FQDN" entry Add "FQDN" definition to doc/glossary.rst. Signed-off-by: Zac Dover --- doc/glossary.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/glossary.rst b/doc/glossary.rst index 5bdcdd1ed0b..6c7e4720be9 100644 --- a/doc/glossary.rst +++ b/doc/glossary.rst @@ -214,6 +214,17 @@ A back end for OSD daemons, where a Journal is needed and files are written to the filesystem. + FQDN + **F**\ully **Q**\ualified **D**\omain **N**\ame. A domain name + that is applied to a node in a network and that specifies the + node's exact location in the tree hierarchy of the DNS. + + In the context of Ceph cluster administration, FQDNs are often + applied to hosts. In this documentation, the term "FQDN" is + used mostly to distinguish between FQDNs and relatively simpler + hostnames, which do not specify the exact location of the host + in the tree hierarchy of the DNS but merely name the host. + Host Any single machine or server in a Ceph Cluster. See :term:`Ceph Node`.