[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 021 Make the IPA installer IPv6 friendly

[Jan Zelený]

Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek at redhat.com> wrote:
> This is a first patch towards IPv6 support. Currently it only touches
> the installer only as other changes will be fully testable only when
> python-nss is IPv6 ready.
> 
> Changes include:
>  * parse AAAA records in dnsclient
>  * also ask for AAAA records when verifying FQDN
>  * do not use functions that are not IPv6 aware - notably
>    socket.gethostbyname(). The complete list of functions was taken
>    from http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html
>    section "Interface Checklist"

Nack, the patch doesn't handle situations when host cannot be resolved.

Jan