Right now one of the only reasons we can't put our entire config for our slaves in CVSup is that the config *requires* the ability to set a server-id for each machine.

Seems like it would be pretty trivial to support a hostname based policy for this. You could simply look at the IP/hostname and set the value from this (though you might need a tracking table).

Policies could include:

- IP based server-id (IPs are 32bit) - parse the hostname for an ID (db4.server.com would yield a server-id of 4) - Adler32/SHA1 truncate the hashcode of the hostname

The first two seem sufficient. This wouldn't be the default of course and would require an explicit config.

Thoughts?

Kevin

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