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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:

> Well, that means 2 things to me:
>
> 1) It's definitely a better idea to use enable_backdoor and always
> pick a random port.
>
> 2) Like you said, folks are setting a specific port instead of using 0
> and that breaks their deployment. And again, they have to either use 0
> and pick a random one or use a different config file for every service
> and make sure they don't clash.
>
> I'm not saying this is the most easy way to do things, in fact, I'm
> suggesting - as Eric did - to replace current backdoor_port with
> enable_backdoor and always pick a random port. In addition, we could
> also support linux sockets.


Totally agree.


> TBH, that doesn't convince me at all. It could be 8802 or 8803 or any
> number higher than that. Even though it is sequential to the chosen
> port, it is still non-deterministic.
>

In my thinking, it isn't necessary to agree upon one way being better than
another.  Instead why don't we just agree to allow both options and make
both of us happy.  Is there any harm in that?


>
> My thinking is that we should support:
>
> 1) Random port
> 2) Linux sockets


3) port hint  :-)
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