--- loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/06/24 19:41:41	1.243
+++ loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/06/27 16:03:55	1.247
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network
 # TCP networking package
 #
-# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.243 2002/06/24 19:41:41 albertel Exp $
+# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.247 2002/06/27 16:03:55 www Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ use vars
 qw(%perlvar %hostname %homecache %badServerCache %hostip %spareid %hostdom 
    %libserv %pr %prp %metacache %packagetab 
    %courselogs %accesshash $processmarker $dumpcount 
-   %coursedombuf %coursehombuf %courseresdatacache);
+   %coursedombuf %coursehombuf %courseresdatacache %domaindescription);
 use IO::Socket;
 use GDBM_File;
 use Apache::Constants qw(:common :http);
@@ -1737,9 +1737,13 @@ sub allowed {
        }
    }
 
-# Restricted by state?
+# Restricted by state or randomout?
 
    if ($thisallowed=~/X/) {
+      if ($ENV{'acc.randomout'}) {
+         my $symb=&symbread();
+         if ($ENV{'acc.randomout'}=~/\&$symb\&/) { return ''; }
+      }
       if (&condval($statecond)) {
 	 return '2';
       } else {
@@ -1812,9 +1816,11 @@ sub definerole {
 # ---------------- Make a metadata query against the network of library servers
 
 sub metadata_query {
-    my ($query,$custom,$customshow)=@_;
+    my ($query,$custom,$customshow,$server_array)=@_;
     my %rhash;
-    for my $server (keys %libserv) {
+    my @server_list = (defined($server_array) ? @$server_array
+                                              : keys(%libserv) );
+    for my $server (@server_list) {
 	unless ($custom or $customshow) {
 	    my $reply=&reply("querysend:".&escape($query),$server);
 	    $rhash{$server}=$reply;
@@ -2941,10 +2947,13 @@ BEGIN {
 
     while (my $configline=<$config>) {
        chomp($configline);
-       my ($id,$domain,$role,$name,$ip)=split(/:/,$configline);
+       my ($id,$domain,$role,$name,$ip,$domdescr)=split(/:/,$configline);
        $hostname{$id}=$name;
        $hostdom{$id}=$domain;
        $hostip{$id}=$ip;
+       if ($domdescr) {
+	   $domaindescription{$domain}=$domdescr;
+       }
        if ($role eq 'library') { $libserv{$id}=$name; }
     }
 }