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  • Codepunk
    #1

    Cluster Node Auto Discovery

    Hi Everyone,

    I have written a specialized server in python and now I wish to look
    at making it scalable. To do this I wish to include automatic
    discovery of peer nodes operating on my network. Can anyone provide me
    a pointer as to how I do such a thing? By how to do it I mean how does
    something like that work at the network level?

    ping scan the ip range?
    some sort of broadcast packet?
    udp request to entire ip range?

    I am not asking for code just how is something like that typically
    done?
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    • Jp Calderone
      #2
      Re: Cluster Node Auto Discovery

      On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:18:26PM -0700, Codepunk wrote:[color=blue]
      > Hi Everyone,
      >
      > I have written a specialized server in python and now I wish to look
      > at making it scalable. To do this I wish to include automatic
      > discovery of peer nodes operating on my network. Can anyone provide me
      > a pointer as to how I do such a thing? By how to do it I mean how does
      > something like that work at the network level?
      >
      > ping scan the ip range?
      > some sort of broadcast packet?
      > udp request to entire ip range?
      >
      > I am not asking for code just how is something like that typically
      > done?[/color]

      Take a look at Rendezvous (http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/)
      and Zeroconf (http://www.zeroconf.org/)

      Jp

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        • John Landahl
          #3
          Re: Cluster Node Auto Discovery

          codepunk@codepu nk.com (Codepunk) wrote in message news:<f1fd7b3.0 307222211.7ccad d97@posting.goo gle.com>...[color=blue]
          >
          > I have written a specialized server in python and now I wish to look
          > at making it scalable. To do this I wish to include automatic
          > discovery of peer nodes operating on my network. Can anyone provide me
          > a pointer as to how I do such a thing? By how to do it I mean how does
          > something like that work at the network level?
          >
          > ping scan the ip range?
          > some sort of broadcast packet?
          > udp request to entire ip range?
          >
          > I am not asking for code just how is something like that typically
          > done?[/color]

          It depends on what you mean by "peer nodes". Do you mean *any* node
          in your local network? Or do you mean other nodes running your
          software?

          If the former, ping scanning would probably be sufficient. You might
          want to make use of the nmap tool (http://www.insecure.org/nmap/) to
          simplify the job.

          However, if by "peer nodes" you mean only other nodes running your
          software, you might want to use Service Location Protocol (SLP,
          defined by RFC 2608). Take a look at OpenSLP
          (http://www.openslp.org/) for an open source implementation. There's
          a Python wrapper (available in the "misc" directory of the
          distribution, IIRC) which works quite well, and which condenses all
          the C code to a .so for use by Python. The advantage there is that
          you don't need to distribute the entire OpenSLP package separately,
          you only need to distribute the Python OpenSLP code itself (which can
          easily be turned into a tarball via "python setup.py bdist").

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