[distcc] Proposed Enhancements/Changes

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Eric Keller <keller.eric at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have some other question/suggestion regarding the --allow option in
> combination with dynamic ip. Some distcc server are deployed on Developer
> PC, which are sometimes shut down or rebooted... The IP address are dynamic!
> So I can use the --allow option on a distcc server, but the allowed ip might
> no more correspond to the wanted PC!
>
> for example:
>
> PC1:172.16.110.218
> PC2:172.16.110.191
> PC3:172.16.111.51
>
> CompilationServer1:
> distccd --allow 172.16.110.218 --allow 172.16.110.191 --allow 172.16.111.51
> --daemon

I think in this situation the only sensible thing is to allow
172.16.110.0/24.  If you don't trust some of the clients within this
dhcp realm you have bigger problems than them moving around, and
should probably use ssh.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>