-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simo Sorce wrote: > Now if you reorder these addresses what happen is that the main site A > clients will always try to contact the branch office servers instead, as > they have 'site-local' ones. Why would we reorder? This is not a given. First, if the local network addresses have a longer matching prefix it is automatically preferred. Second, even if somebody is in the situation where somebody bad a bad decision that this is not the case (e.g., always remember a machine can have more than one IP address) you can overwrite the default preferences getaddrinfo uses for sorting using /etc/gai.conf. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHEkoj2ijCOnn/RHQRArTbAJ0RKAKykT5dvBOwZXXtP7xkV+69HQCgt1bd yHN+OB2pGt1+8mZ3puyKJQk= =euZA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list