[distcc] Auto discovery of volunteers

[Brad Hards]

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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:53 am, Lisa Seelye wrote:
> A feasibility would be to use zeroconf to advertise nodes in the daemon
> and a segment in the client to detect volunteer nodes.  To this end, one
> of our Gentoo devs is working on a (standalone) project to fulfill this,
> when he makes it public I'll be sure to forward the relevant info to
> this list for possible inclusion into the system.
I've previously suggested using SLP for this (and published the server side 
patch). I still think it is a better idea on very large configurations where 
you have a range of compilers. 
Otherwise you need to query every host for its capabilities, which generates n 
responses per query, where n is the number of volunteers.
SLP only generates responses where the host actually matches what you are 
asking for - you really do want server side filtering, and Rendezvous can't 
do that.

Brad
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