[Freeipa-devel] A new proopsal for Location Based Discovery

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 14:29 +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:
> >
> > Pavel Brezina discovered that the design doesn't specify how client
> > should behave if expected _location.client.example.com. record
> doesn't
> > exist.
> >
> > I propose to let this aspect on implementer's discretion (or
> configurable).
> >
> > Personally, I would fall back to another pre-configured name, e.g.
> in
> > case of SSSD to configured 'IPA domain' ...
> 
> Before I seen the design page, I wanted to implement it in SSSD this
> way:
> 
> If '_location.host.domain' gives any result than take it as primary 
> servers and SRV from 'domain' as backup servers. Otherwise use
> 'domain' 
> result as primary servers.
> 
> But I'm not so sure now.
> 
This is what I would expect too.
If no 'custom' record are available fallback to global records, then
fall back to classic SRV records, then fall back to local configuration.

Simo.
> 
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York