[hobbit] Problem with multiple BBDISPLAYS

[Werner (gmail Lists)]

> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 11:24:22AM +0200, Ulric Eriksson wrote:
> > 
> > >Does the behaviour change if you swap the two IP-adresses in the
> > >BBDISPLAYS setting? Ie if you change it to
> > >  BBDISPLAYS="10.0.4.7 10.0.4.5"
> > 
> > Yes. Should it? ;-)
> > 
> > 10.0.4.5 is the Big Brother server, 10.0.4.7 is the Hobbit 
> > server. It works when I list the Hobbit server first.
> 
> OK, then it isn't really a bug, but just a configuration issue.
> The problem is that when the web-build task (bbgen) fetches
> the current status it needs to get it from the Hobbit server, not
> the BB server. But since it doesn't know which of all the servers
> listed in BBDISPLAYS is a Hobbit server, it will always use the
> first one.
> 

Hi Henrik,
	Maybe (to avoid server/bbgen crash), bbgen could use the "ping"
command agains the listed servers, to be sure it's a hobbitd server and
not a BB or BB variant.

	-wm