[Freeipa-devel] fedora-ds schema for DNS

[Jonathan Barber]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:29:20PM -0600, William Baker wrote:
> 
> I would love to review that "standard schema", even if all you can do is 
> point me to a particular RFC.

When I last looked (about a year ago) there was no such thing - all of
the implementations difered (at least those that were modifications of
ISC's bind/dhcpd implementations).

> bbaker
> 
> >On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 11:31 -0600, William Baker wrote:
> >  
> >>I am attemping to find the schema used for storing DNS records in 
> >>fedora-ds.  In particular, I was looking for the objectclass of 
> >>dNSZone.  All that I have found is a little bit of contraversy about 
> >>schema defs for aRecord and dNSRecord regarding old RFC's and Netscape 
> >>Directory.
> >>
> >>There are four missing pieces of documentation on the fedora directory 
> >>site.  The two that I am interested in are "Howto: BIND" and "Howto: 
> >>DHCP".  I would like to write the "Howto: BIND".
> >>
> >>As a starting point, I either need to find or create the schema for 
> >>storing DNS records.  I was hoping this project would have the "blessed" 
> >>schema.  I downloaded FreeIPA sources and did some searching but didn't 
> >>find this schema.  I hope to have a machine set up soon where I can 
> >>install the current freeipa and see how it works a little more closely, 
> >>but that won't happen until next week.
> >>
> >>Does anybody currently have such a schema?
> >>Any insight into putting DNS information into FDS?
> >>    
> >
> >We have long term plans to let people integrate DNS and DHCP modules and
> >have a standard schema for these. Unfortunately we have not yet had the
> >time to get to this point yet. We had some talks about how that should
> >work, but nothing definitive.
> >On the schema side I've done a bit of research and there are different
> >schema options, BIND has at least 3 different modules to deal with LDAP
> >but honestly none of them is completely satisfactory.
> >
> >We are delaying work around BIND until we have a better idea and more
> >resource to throw at the problem.
> >
> >Simo.
> >
> >  
> 
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