[distcc] Re: Simple autodiscovery of distcc servers

[Martin Pool]

On 8/16/05, Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> > There is an idea from some time ago that distcc should do
> > load-balancing, etc by server IP address, rather than hostname.  If we
> > did that, then you could perhaps just have one round-robin DNS address
> > per site.  If the machine's default domain was set properly it would
> > be enough to set DISTCC_HOSTS=distcc.
> 
> Oooh.  Je l'aime.  I'll look at that.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214621

There is a start towards this in
patches/granig_distcc_multi-A-record.diff, though I don't know if that
will handle ssh or ipv6 properly.  (Does anyone use ipv6?)

On the whole I think it'd be good to do this; I'd like to hear test
results from people with lots of machines.

-- 
Martin