[Devel] [ openser-Patches-1464264 ] support for TLS client domains (name based and socket based)

Daniel-Constantin Mierla daniel at voice-system.ro
Thu Apr 6 16:16:21 CEST 2006


On 04/06/06 17:10, Ovidiu Sas wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
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>> On 04/06/06 13:39, Juha Heinanen wrote:
>>> Dan Pascu writes:
>>>
>>>  > It would be a good idea to store these peer settings in a table 
>>> in a  > database (like with the SIP domains) so they can be easily 
>>> added at  > runtime without a need to change the configuration file 
>>> and restart  > openser.
>>>
>>> i vote for database table.  text files are not a good idea.
>>>
>> using database may be easier when there is a GUI to provision, 
>> otherwise text files are more handy. Looking at many network daemons, 
>> I couldn't find one which loads config from database. Binding the 
>> config to a database, would eliminate the possibility to use OpenSER 
>> on embedded systems (many flavors of openser do not need database: 
>> outbound proxy, load balancing ...).
>>
>> IMO, if there is going to be support for TLS config in database, that 
>> is great, but must be an alternative to use just local file system.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
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> dbtext might be an alternative for embedded systems.
> The downside of dbtext is that each change to a dbtable will end up in 
> a restart (to bad that dbtext doesn't support table reload via fifo 
> commands).
also, dbtext is hard to be managed via text editors, you dont have 
name=value directives, there are colon separated values per each line 
which is not very nice if you have to write a certificate or something big.

Cheers,
Daniel



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> -ovi
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