On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Manuel Franceschini
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Guido Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Manuel Franceschini
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> +    daemon.AsyncUDPSocket.__init__(self, 
>>> utils.GetAddressFamily(bind_address))
>>
>> Are you sure this works? bind_address is '' by default and
>> GetAddressFamily fails on that.
>
> By default it is "0.0.0.0". Currently if an invalid address is passed
> we fail with 'socket.gaierror'. This improves that by raising a
> 'GenericError' that GetAddressFamily throws.
>

Right... Mmm... the docstring still says that by default it's ''.
Wonder when that changed, and if we should fix the docstring. :)

>> Also, if bind_address is '' I'd say we should create two sockets, and
>> bind on both ip4 and ip6, if the hosts has addresses/supports either.
>
> The plan was to use a cluster-level parameter to determine whether
> IPv4 or IPv6 is preferred. Based on that information we could bind
> confd. What about doing that for now and see whether/how we support
> hybrid clusters?

Well, for confd for example it's quite simple to support either, as
it's a quite standalone component. I wouldn't say "let's have 3 nodes
on v4 and 3 on v6" but for example having rapi and confd reachable by
either sounds worth it. And a good path to transition. We'd need to
save both the v4 and v6 ip in the config file for this to work, but I
guess that would be doable.

What do you think?

Guido

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