[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Introduce new env variable, enable_dns=True, if IPA is managing DNS.

[Adam Young]

On 12/09/2010 09:17 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> Question:
>
> Do we support situation when one replica has DNS and another does not?
> In other words is DNS integration an instance property or a domain property?
> I do not know is it a good or a bad thing but if it is per instance the UI/CLI from the same client will act differently depending on the DNS configuration of the instance.
> Might be very confusing. At least we need to document it to set the right expectations. Otherwise if the CLI/UI failed over to not DNS enabled replica the admin would be puzzled why his command line stopped working or where the DNS panel in the UI.
>
> Thoughts?
>    
In those cases, the LDAP values will get syncronized, but the DNS server 
just won't show them, right?

My understanding is that, In this patch, the value is put into the 
config file, and so it will reflect the state of the server, not the 
LDAP database.  Thus, this is the right approach.



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pavel Zuna"<pzuna at redhat.com>
> To: "freeipa-devel"<freeipa-devel at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 9, 2010 8:52:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Introduce new env variable, enable_dns=True, if IPA is managing DNS.
>
> if api.env.enable_dns:
> 	print "DNS is managed by IPA"
>
> ====
>
> ipa env | grep "enable_dns: True">  /devnull&&  echo "DNS is managed by IPA"
>
> ====
>
> Ticket #600
>
> Pavel
>
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