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

[Petr Spacek]

On 5.4.2013 14:38, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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,
What is the difference between 'global records' and 'classic SRV records'?

Petr^2 Spacek

 > then
> fall back to classic SRV records, then fall back to local configuration.