pre1 dies on startup: generate_sql_clients() returned error

Peter Nixon listuser at peternixon.net
Mon Aug 27 22:38:14 CEST 2007


On Mon 27 Aug 2007, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> Alan DeKok wrote:
> > Norbert Wegener wrote:
> >> That's true, but maybe Alan's suggestion to add a debug message
> >> complaining about this
> >> would be nice here, too?
> >
> >   Committed to CVS.
>
> Does it complain and die , or just complain ?
>
> This is the kind of issue that I can see someone phoning me at 2am for
> *sigh* ...
>
> Oh fun... the four fields that make up the ip address haven't got a
> unique index across them...
>
> and the person who wrote our management application allows 0.0.0.0 as an
> ip address...
>
> ---
>
> I know you like to kill the server off if theres any kind of
> configuration parsing error; but possibly duplicate/invalid clients is
> one of the exceptions where it might be better to complain bitterly...
>
> Or better still complain normally, and complain and exit in debugging
> mode.

How do we currently handle overlapping subnets, and more specifically a 
single share secret for a subnet with specific shared secrets for IPs in 
that subnet? (IMHO a valid config but something I am not sure we support at 
present)

Regards

-- 

Peter Nixon
http://peternixon.net/



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