Hi everybody. All feedback is greatly appreciated.
Thank you. -- Kveðja / Best regards, Kristinn Örn Sigurðsson. 2016-05-02 10:59 GMT+02:00 Kristinn Örn Sigurðsson <k...@root.is>: > Hello everybody. > > I have a patch I would like to contribute to the LDAP client. > > Let's say you have a machine that has no IPv4 connectivity, only IPv6. You > want to connect to a LDAP server with a hostname that resolves both to an > IPv4 and IPv6 address. > > Currently you would (most likely) not be able to connect because the > client code selects the first result returned by the DNS as the IP to use. > That is often the IPv4 address. > > My patch tries to initiate a socket connection to all the returned IP > addresses simultaneously (without applying the LDAP request that caused the > connection to be initiated). The first successful connection is selected > and all the others are discarded. > > I know this is not as efficient as just connecting to one IP, but I try to > make it as efficient as possible (I'm not a java veteran). > > I did think about scanning the interfaces of the machine and try to > determine what kind of connectivity we have and from there pick the right > IP to connect to (if the DNS query returns both A and AAAA records). > However, that would only be, at best, guess work. > > I did create a pull request where you host your mirror at github. I didn't > see any better way to provide the code to you. > > The pull request is available at > https://github.com/apache/directory-shared/pull/2 > > All suggestions and comments are greatly appreciated. > > Thank you! > > -- > Kveðja / Best regards, > Kristinn Örn Sigurðsson. >
