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What's the regular expression pattern of Meraki hostname to DNS?

FredY1 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:40:11 GMT

Example 1:

On Meraki Console:
Host name of Access Point is set to be: Meraki-8-1(Old)
Mac Address: c5:c6:cd:32:23:42

On our DNS manager it shows the machine's DNS is: meraki-8-1-old-c5c6cd322342

Example 2:

On Meraki Console:
Host name is changed to: --Meraki-8-1
Mac Address: c5:c6:cd:32:23:42

On our DNS manager, machine's DNS now becomes: m-meraki-8-1-e5c6cd322342

Question:

I understand example 1. We change all invalid symbols to hyphen to make it a valid DNS. I do not understand Example 2. Where did the 'm' in the front come from? What's the pattern here?

Re: What's the regular expression pattern of Meraki hostname to DNS?

aleabrahao — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:28:10 GMT

Is this question more out of curiosity or do you need this information for something specific?

Re: What's the regular expression pattern of Meraki hostname to DNS?

FredY1 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 23:39:26 GMT

Need it to develop product. We use Meraki Dashboard API for our product. However Dashboard API does not provide valid DNS or FQDN. Need a way to get DNS.

Re: What's the regular expression pattern of Meraki hostname to DNS?

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:48:49 GMT

This is your own DNS manager you are asking about? You'll need to take a look at its source code to figure that out.