Re: [tabled patch 4/5] Support "auto" replicaton port

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:21:03 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.hail-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/12/2010 03:22 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Allow random ports for replication master to listen on.
>
> The patch is somewhat larger than expected, because before we had
> the MASTER file written right after locking. Now we may have it
> written without listening parameters, and the slaves must be
> ready to deal with it.
>
> Unlike the auto client port, we do not need to write any "accessor"
> files, because we already report the host and port through CLD.
>
> Listening on random ports has security implications.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev<[email protected]>

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