WL#11652: Support multiple addresses for the --bind-address command option
Affects: Server-8.0
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Status: Complete
The MySQL server can be configured to listen to: 1) One (and only one) IPv4 interface and one(and only one) IPv6 interface or 2) All interfaces that are configured on a server. See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_bind- address If at OS level, the server has multiple networks addresses, there is a need to configure the MySQL server to listen to a set of addresses. This will enable the MySQL server to restrict an address the server should *not* listen to as well. A typical example is to have network segments split on parts like: 1. Business flow 2. Management and monitoring 3. Backup Through the current --bind-address config variable, it is not possible to configure the MySQL server to listen to only two network addresses. User's Use case. ================ This worklog was inspired by user requests. Example of one such request is quoted below: Currently, mysql seems to support only exactly one IP address to bind to (besides binding to IN_ADDR_ANY that means all addresses). This is a disadvantage in HA Cluster configurations, where a cluster framework stops/starts stand-alone mysql instances (non-NDB) on physical servers within a cluster. Within such frameworks, you don't want to bind to IN_ADDR_ANY but rather to specific IP adresses in order to allow the cluster framework to switch two instances of an application onto the same cluster node (with the same (standard) port number). This is currently possible with mysql, but only for exacly one IP address per mysql instance. In situations where you need more than one IP address for an HA instance, you either have to bind to IN_ADDR_ANY and somehow make sure that no two mysql instances will run on any cluster node at the same time, or find other means by which to provide the second address (tcp forwarder, NAT on a firewall - whatever). Both solutions are not ideal, so this feature request is for a configuration option allowing more than one IP address to be specified. General description of a way to satisfy user's Feature Request. =============================================================== The suggestion is to support a comma separated list of bind-addresses the MySQL server should listen to incoming connections. Since the system call "bind" only supports listening to one or all configured addresses of a server, separate sockets need to be configured per network address given in this list. This will be very sensitive to connect performance, and should be implemented in a way that if only one address is given to --bind-address, this penalty is minimized. The list of addresses cannot accept any of the wildcard options. The server should not start if any of the addresses given through the --bind-address option is not available at OS level. Worklog scope ============= This worklog won't affect Xplugin or Group Replication including XCom in any way. References. =========== http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14979
Functional Requirements. ======================== FR.1 Server implementation must provide support for specifying multiple addresses as a value for the command-line parameter --bind-address. FR.1.2 The symbol ',' must be used as a delimiter. Rationale for FR.1.2: Another possible symbol that typically used as a delimiter is the symbol ';'. Since semicolon (;) is interpreted as a special character by some command interpreters (Unix shells treat it as a command terminator, for example.), using of semicolon as a value separator implies enclosing a whole string value in some kind of quotes. To avoid using of quotes and make a user's life easier it makes sense to use another symbol as a delimiter. Good candidate for a delimiter in this case is the symbol ','. FR.2 In case multiple values specified as a value of the option --bind-address, the following special treated values '*', '::' and '0.0.0.0' mustn't be allowed as a individual values in a comma separated value of the option. FR.2.1 The new error code ER_INVALID_VALUE_OF_BIND_ADDRESSES must be introduced to report about errors in parsing of multivalued command line option --bind-address. FR.2.2 Attempt to specify any of the special treated values '*', '::' and '0.0.0.0' in multivalued command line option --bind-address must lead to output of the error ER_INVALID_VALUE_OF_BIND_ADDRESSES to an error stream and stop server running. FR.3 Presence of several adjacent commas, or starting/ending value string with the comma must lead to parsing error in case multivalued command line option --bind-address. FR.3.1 In case a parse error happens for multivalued command line option --bind-address, the error ER_INVALID_VALUE_OF_BIND_ADDRESSES must be output to an error stream and server must be stopped. FR.4 Server must bind successfully to every address specified in multivalued command option --bind-address. FR.4.1 Failure to bind to a some of values specified in multivalued command line option --bind-address must lead to error and prohibit server to run. FR.5 Server must accept connection request on any of the addressed specified by multivalued command line option --bind-address. Non-Functional Requirements. ============================ UFR.1 In case a single address specified in command line option --bind-address, connect performance must be not penalized comparing with a server without support for multi-valued command line option --bind-address
To support acceptance of incoming TCP connections on several IP addresses the following steps are done: * Addresses specified in the command line option --bind-address is parsed on server starting up as part of network initialization; * Sanity check is done for every specified part of bind-address' value; * The error ER_INVALID_VALUE_OF_BIND_ADDRESSES is reported in case either parsing error happens or any component of comma separated value of the option --bind-address address contains one of the following values '*', '::' and '0.0.0.0'; * Checked values placed into a list of string objects that later passed to a constructor of the class Mysqld_socket_listener and stored in class' data member. These steps is done during call of the function network_init(). Handling of incoming TCP connection requests is done without any changes. To setup sockets for listening incoming connections the current server implementation calls the member function Mysqld_socket_listener::setup_listener to bind with passed address values. This member function iterates along the list of values specified by the command line option --bind-address, creates TCP socket for every address value being iterated and call the network API function bind() to bind socket with address. TCP Socket in MySQL server is represented by the wrapper class TCP_socket and all activities required for TCP socket creation and binding with address is encapsulated by current implementation inside the member function TCP_socket::get_listener_socket(). Created instances of the class TCP_socket is stored in the data member Mysqld_socket_listener::m_socket_map. This data member is used both to specify socket descriptors to listen incoming connection requests and to close server sockets during server shutting down. Current server implementation supports two ways to wait for incoming network connection requests: the first one uses the API function poll(), the second one uses the API function select(). In case the API function poll() is used for waiting server sockets for readiness to accept incoming TCP connection requests, the data type Mysqld_socket_listener::m_poll_info must be modified to allow for storing of variable number of sockets being listened. That means that type of data members poll_info_t::m_fds and poll_info_t::m_pfs_fds must be changed from array of predefined size (specified by the constant MAX_SOCKETS that had the value 2) to the type std::vector. For case when the API function select() is used for listening for ready incoming connection requests no modifications are required in the nested data type Mysqld_socket_listener::select_info_t. Since implementation of this worklog doesn't make changes in handling of incoming TCP connection requests no performance degradation happens when the option --bind-address specifies single value.
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