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To add a new site to the replication group all that is
needed is for the client member to join. Berkeley DB will
perform an internal initialization from the master to the
client automatically and will run recovery on the client to
bring it up to date with the master.
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For Base API applications, connecting to a new site in the
replication group happens whenever the <a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_process_message()</a> method
returns <a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html#repmsg_DB_REP_NEWSITE" class="olink">DB_REP_NEWSITE</a>. The application should assign the
new site a local environment ID number, and all future
messages from the site passed to <a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_process_message()</a> should include
that environment ID number. It is possible, of course, for the
application to be aware of a new site before the return of
<a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_process_message()</a> (for example, applications using
connection-oriented protocols are likely to detect new sites
immediately, while applications using broadcast protocols may
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Regardless, in applications supporting the dynamic addition
of database environments to replication groups, environments
joining an existing replication group may need to provide
contact information. (For example, in an application using
TCP/IP sockets, a DNS name or IP address might be a reasonable
value to provide.) This can be done using the <span class="bold"><strong>cdata</strong></span> parameter to the <a href="../api_reference/C/repstart.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_start()</a>
method. The information referenced by <span class="bold"><strong>cdata</strong></span>
is wrapped in the initial contact
message sent by the new environment, and is provided to the
existing members of the group using the <span class="bold"><strong>rec</strong></span>
parameter returned by <a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_process_message()</a>. If no
additional information was provided for Berkeley DB to forward
to the existing members of the group, the <span class="bold"><strong>data</strong></span> field of the <span class="bold"><strong>rec</strong></span> parameter passed to the
<a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_process_message()</a> method will be NULL after <a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_process_message()</a> returns
<a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html#repmsg_DB_REP_NEWSITE" class="olink">DB_REP_NEWSITE</a>.
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Replication Manager automatically distributes contact
information using the mechanisms previously described.
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