innfeed 'discover' and wish list

[Russ Allbery]

Todd Olson <tco2 at cornell.edu> writes:

> Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
> So I am very puzzled.
> My experience is this:

>    My box was a solaris 9 box with one physical and 3 logical interface.
>    Initially innfeed was configured for a logical interface with an IP
>    address that the remote peer server *rejected* the connection from.

>    I am assuming (but have not verified) that when innfeed contacts a
>    peer and that peer refuses the connection that the connection would
>    be closed!

>    When innfeed tries a few minuites later to contact the remote peer
>    again a new connection would be opened.

>    But based on my logs there was no change in the interface used.

I would expect so as well.  I'm at a loss to explain that behavior given
the code.  In INN 2.4, whenever a HUP signal is received, the
configuration file is re-read.  If there is a bindaddress paramenter, a
global bind_addr variable is updated.  Every time a new connection is
opened, that variable is used to specify the local bind address.

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