Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][API]what's the purpose of fping in nova API?

2016-02-01 Thread Chen CH Ji
ok, a potential work for N release, thanks-Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: -To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.orgFrom: Sean Dague <s...@dague.net>Date: 02/01/2016 11:07AMSubject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][API]what's the purpose of fping in nova API?On 01/29/2016 09:18 AM, Chen CH Ji wrote:> In doing some API work on> http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.1.html> noticed that fping was [1] and try to ping the instance to check whether> it's pingable or not..> but this is running on API service host which mostly have no access to> instance with private IP?> Just curious about it ...> > > [1]> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/compute/fping.py#L53fping is probably an API we should deprecate, as you've seen, it'shighly foulable and requires a network topology that people may not have.-Sean-- Sean Daguehttp://dague.net__OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribehttp://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev[attachment "signature.asc" removed by Chen CH Ji/China/IBM]


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Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][API]what's the purpose of fping in nova API?

2016-02-01 Thread Sean Dague
On 01/29/2016 09:18 AM, Chen CH Ji wrote:
> In doing some API work on
> http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.1.html
> noticed that fping was [1] and try to ping the instance to check whether
> it's pingable or not..
> but this is running on API service host which mostly have no access to
> instance with private IP?
> Just curious about it ...
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/compute/fping.py#L53

fping is probably an API we should deprecate, as you've seen, it's
highly foulable and requires a network topology that people may not have.

-Sean

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