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

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 14:54 +0200, Petr Spacek wrote:
> 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'?

_ldap._tcp._location.example.com
vs
_ldap._tcp.example.com

Simo.


-- 
Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York