[SSSD] Design Discussion: SSSD should support DNS sites

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Sat Feb 23 12:20:36 UTC 2013


> > > > Hi,
> > > > since we are creating a plugin interface, we should use custom
> > > > data
> > > > type in _recv instead of struct ares_srv_reply.
> > > 
> > > makes sense. Then I would suggest that a list ordered according
> > > to RFC
> > > 2782 of hostname, port pairs is returned, where the elements then
> > > can be
> > > fed directly to create_fo_server(). Do you agree?
> > 
> > For SRV records the RFC 2782 makes sense for sure, but is it also
> > applicable
> > to the AD site discovery?
> 
> yes, since it is alse a SRV request. But there might be other
> environments where this is different, that's why I think it make
> sense
> to let the plugin return the list in a appropriate order.

Maybe we should use an opaque structure private to the plugin
and then provide getters and setters ?

Simo.

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