Re: pcp updates: pmcd clients use "local:" as the default instead of gethostname() or localhost

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

nathans wrote:

> [...]
> ... so we appear to be no longer enforcing the host-based access control
> for unix domain socket connections.  I think we need to do that, in the
> same way we did for "-h localhost", [...]

Or else, have pmcd.conf or a pmcd option specify whether it is to bind
to AF_UNIX and/or individual network interfaces at all.  (For reasons
we discussed earlier, I'm unfond of heuristics based on strings like
"localhost".)

> as others may not think so (can we control local pmcd
> over-subscription without this?).

How is over-subscription related?


- FChE