Re: autofs misbehaves when DNS RRs returns more ldap servers

[Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 09:48 +0100, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> On 06.01.2011 08:09, Ian Kent wrote: 
> > > LDAP_URI="ldap://server1 ldap://server2"
> > You are supposed to be able to do this.
> > 
> Ok I have found the problem. The construction above is working well,
> indeed.
> The problem is, that you call get_dc_list() directly in the while loop
> in function find_server() where its output is not parsed (normally the
> LDAP_URI config parameter is parsed fine).
> 
> I think that to fix it we would need to:
> 1. call the get_dc_list() before the main "while" loop
> 2. fix get_dc_list() so it rather than strcatting ldap uris into a
> single string returns the pure list so that we do not have to parse it
> again. This way it can be directly processed in the main while loop.
> 
> But I do not know how would it behave if we had something like this:
> LDAP_URI="ldap:///something ldap:///something_else".
> 
> Maybe two nested loops would be better - anyway I am sure you know
> where I am pointing now :-) 

Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm still on leave so things are still going slowly for now, but I'll
get to it.

> 
> Ondrej
> 
> 
> 
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