[ovs-dev] Use set-controller command with DNS Name

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Dec 22 16:57:19 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 04:42:17PM +0530, Vishal Swarankar wrote:
> I want to use ovs-vsctl set-controller command with DNS name, so I made
> following changes in the code. I hope, I don't need to do any another
> change.  Please tell me if you see anyother issue.

It's not going to work consistently, because gethostbyname() sends
packets on the network, which means that flows must be set up, which
ovs-vswitchd cannot do because it is waiting for a network reply.




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