[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 111 Let Bind track data changes

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 14:20 +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> A new version of bind-dyndb-ldap has been released. Thanks to the new
> persistent search feature, the name server can immediately pull new DNS
> zones when they are created in IPA.
> 
> Since the bind-dyndb-ldap plugin has not been released in F-15 yet, one
> has to use the provided src.rpm:
> 
> http://mkosek.fedorapeople.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/srpm/bind-dyndb-ldap-0.2.0-5.fc17.src.rpm
> 
> or rpms I built for x86_64 F-15:
> 
> http://mkosek.fedorapeople.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/x86_64/
> 
> There is one setback though. When I investigated DNS persistent search
> behavior I still miss the ability to detect changes to the DNS zone
> itself. Adding a record (for example MX record) to the zone does not
> trigger an update of the zone in nameserver cache. We still have to wait
> for cache timeout (argument "cache_ttl"). We cannot therefore use this
> feature as a solution of:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1114
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1125
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1126

Is this a bug/deficiency of the plugin ? Or is it something that depends
on named internals somehow ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York