Background: I have used distcc before and really appreciated the speed boost. However, I had to know who was volunteering clock cycles. We have a large number of laptops that I would like to use for distcc (300ish), but they are only on part of the time, and they all have dynamic IPs. Proposal: A central server that knows who is available to compile at each moment. When a new laptop is imaged, this would tell everyone else that she is available as well. Example: Ten early adopters already have eachother in their DISTCC_HOSTS variable. Then Sally wants to join in - Adding sally to 10 computers by hand is bad. Adding Sally, Susie and Raphael to 220 computers is worse. Also, if Sally is only on 30% of the time, do we want her in everyone's list? Thank You for your consideration - if we can get this working, I may be able to convert the college to Gentoo from Red Hat. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
really this is an upstream request
