<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">ok, a potential work for N release<span>, thanks<br></span><br><br><font color="#990099">-----Sean Dague <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:sean@dague.net">sean@dague.net</a>> wrote: -----</font><div class="iNotesHistory" style="padding-left:5px;"><div style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:5px;border-left:solid black 2px;">To: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>From: Sean Dague <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:sean@dague.net">sean@dague.net</a>><br>Date: 02/01/2016 11:07AM<br>Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][API]what's the purpose of fping in nova API?<br><br><div><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="2">On 01/29/2016 09:18 AM, Chen CH Ji wrote:<br>> In doing some API work on<br>> <a href="http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.1.html">http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.1.html</a><br>> noticed that fping was [1] and try to ping the instance to check whether<br>> it's pingable or not..<br>> but this is running on API service host which mostly have no access to<br>> instance with private IP?<br>> Just curious about it ...<br>> <br>> <br>> [1]<br>> <a href="https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/compute/fping.py#L53">https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/compute/fping.py#L53</a><br><br>fping is probably an API we should deprecate, as you've seen, it's<br>highly foulable and requires a network topology that people may not have.<br><br>        -Sean<br><br>-- <br>Sean Dague<br><a href="http://dague.net">http://dague.net</a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="2">__________________________________________________________________________<br>OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)<br>Unsubscribe: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject">OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject</a>:unsubscribe<br><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br></font></div></div><br><br>[attachment "signature.asc" removed by Chen CH Ji/China/IBM]</div></font><BR>