Fair point Reyk, I honestly did not think about this daemon approach ! Thanks for your inputs !
On 11 July 2014 11:59, Reyk Floeter <r...@openbsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:33:19AM +0100, David Carlier wrote: > > I was wondering if a generic small geoloc lib might interest ? which can > > load dynamically any geo localisation library via dlopen and so on ... to > > get, let's say, a country code with an ip address ... can serve for some > > purposes (I ll use it for geolocalisation load balancing via relayd) ... > > > > I would not support plugins or a dlopen() approach in relayd. And > doing dlopen in an external library isn't very nice either. > > So what information would relayd need for geolocalisation? Do you > have more details about the concepts? You could run your > geolocalisation service as a daemon itself and let relayd connect via > a UNIX socket to query the required information. > > In relayd, the "query an external tool via the socket to get the > destination" could be fairly generic and doesn't even have to be > geolocalisation- specific. It could be configured as part of the new > filter rules that I committed yesterday. > > Reyk >
