[distcc] Auto discovery of volunteers

[Martin Pool]

On 17 Oct 2003, Gerard Beekmans <gerard at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 17:58, Martin Pool wrote:
> > > Are there plans to build this into distccd that so it can maintain some
> > > file that the client reads. This won't work if distccd doesn't run on
> > > localhost, but I'm sure there's something else that can be done about
> > > that (something like running distccd locally as a discovery only, not
> > > accepting compile jobs).
> > 
> > Can you explain this a bit more?
> 
> I was thinking that distccd could query a list of potential hosts and
> maintain the system-wide hosts file. This means distccd has to run on
> every host even if you don't want that host to be used by others. You'd
> run distccd locally as the side-wide hosts maintainer only. I think this
> can already be realized with distccd's --allow option.
> 
> Making more sense now?

OK.  How is this better than having the clients check which hosts are
up?

We already remember which hosts are not working, so clients can share
knowledge and won't waste time trying machines which were recently
seen to be down.

--
Martin