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

[Jan Zelený]

Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/15/2010 10:55 AM, Jan Zelený wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Thanks, it didn't handle the case in ipa-replica-install, now it should
> catch the exception and return None (and the caller would react upon
> getting None for the IP address).
> 
> In krbinstance.py it would still raise an exception, but I think that is
> OK during instance creation (we surely don't want to print anything).
> The user would see the error string, anyway..

ack

Jan