On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:25:42 +0200 (CEST) sauer wrote: n> As far as fragility, I'd argue that this is more robust in the n> environment I'm describing. If we need to move one of the secondaries n> to a new IP, move a machine name to a different location, etc, then n> the reconfiguration is handled in one place - DNS.
That seems fragile to me. Each machine could suddenly reconfigure itself if it accidentally hit the wrong server, if I understand you correctly. Better to duplicate the meta-configuration or even better, put it in a central inventory. n> I actually wanted DNS to return only the address for the n> location-specific primary, but whatever software they use to manage n> CNAMEs dictated that they should do it this way. Maybe I'll pressure n> them a little more to make sure that they can't just resolve the root n> problem of returning the wrong machines... Use a module and call out to a C program or Perl script or whatever that only returns 0 or 1 results. You can put much more customized logic in there without complicating your cfengine setup. Ted _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
