Mailing List Archive: [mod_backhand-users] Wackamole: Same IP on different hosts

Hello

This is not a question about mod_backhand, but about wackamole. As there is
no dedicated wackamole mailing list on lists.backhand.org i'm asking here.

I've played around with wackamole a bit, it's nice to have software that
just works.

However, there is following misbehaviour which I believe it is a bug:

Should, for some reason, on host A running wackamole and having assigned a
virtual IP from wackamole, the wackamole process being terminated, that
virtual IP gets assigned to another host (host B), but is not removed from
host A. The result is having two different hosts with the same IP in a
network, and that's not too good.

Is this a configuration issue or the intended behaviour of wackamole?

If not, I suggest adding code to remove all virtual IP adresses assigned
from wackamole when terminating the wackamole process itself.

Thanks
Martin Domig

Hi,

I am forwarding this message also to the Spread users list. If there will be more
interest in wackamole, we'll open another mailing list for it off the backhand page.

You have a very good point regarding removing all virtual IP addresses
assigned to wackamole when the process terminates.

Thanks,

:) Yair.

Martin Domig wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> This is not a question about mod_backhand, but about wackamole. As there is
> no dedicated wackamole mailing list on lists.backhand.org i'm asking here.
>
> I've played around with wackamole a bit, it's nice to have software that
> just works.
>
> However, there is following misbehaviour which I believe it is a bug:
>
> Should, for some reason, on host A running wackamole and having assigned a
> virtual IP from wackamole, the wackamole process being terminated, that
> virtual IP gets assigned to another host (host B), but is not removed from
> host A. The result is having two different hosts with the same IP in a
> network, and that's not too good.
>
> Is this a configuration issue or the intended behaviour of wackamole?
>
> If not, I suggest adding code to remove all virtual IP adresses assigned
> from wackamole when terminating the wackamole process itself.
>
> Thanks
> Martin Domig
>
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