Re: (ITS#7027) [PATCH] Implement priority/weigh for DNS SRV records

[james.leddy@redhat.com]

> In addition, random seed has to be initialized, otherwise the behavior
> is predictable. 

I didn't think it too big of a deal, since it doesn't have to be
cryptographically random. I can submit a patch to call srandom()
first.

> On the other side, I do not think that calling srand()
> in libldap is a good idea. The client application should do that. Or
> is there any other option?

The function ldap_domain2hostlist returns a list of strings, there
isn't any weight/prio information for the client to act
on. Furthermore the weight prio section was commented out, I figured
the library was the right place to do it.

The algo specified in rfc2782 is detailed, and specifies a random
number should be generated., I didn't want to implement it because it
results in sorting once by prio, once by weight instead of one sort
that does both.


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James M. Leddy
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Red Hat Inc.