Re: slapd-meta doesn't continue with multiple uri's

[Liam Gretton <liam.gretton@leicester.ac.uk>]

On 22/08/2012 22:14, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> > But what's the point of specifying multiple targets in the uri
> > option if it doesn't fall through to subsequent ones when the first
> > is not contactable?
> >
> > Have I completely missed the point of the documentation?
>
> The point is that your condition is *not* a server unreachable.

There's obviously some subtlety I'm missing here. How would you describe
it instead?

> Current failover only deals with failures/timeouts of connect(2). I
> don't think handling your case using failover is appropriate. Your
> case should be handled by removing the non-responding URI from the
> list.

I don't understand the difference. If a server is unavailable for
whatever reason (offline, firewalled, switched off, nothing listening on
the specified port), then connect() will timeout as you describe.

Which failures are the current mechanism actually expected to cope with
that don't include a server being unreachable?

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