[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 047 Add an address for a nameserver when a new zone is created during install

[Rob Crittenden]

Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:52:08PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:44:43 +0100
>> Jakub Hrozek<jhrozek at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/881
>>>
>>> We've run into a chicken-and-egg problem during installation. If the
>>> hostname of the IPA server is not resolvable with DNS during
>>> installation, we'd add it as a NS server for a zone in both the SOA
>>> entry and a NS record -- but no records from the new zone are
>>> resolvable until Bind is restarted, including the new A/AAAA records
>>> for the nameserver.
>>>
>>> I tried restarting the named service during Bind instance creation but
>>> that didn't help..not exactly sure why. Anyway, attached is a patch
>>> that forces the NS record creation.
>>>
>>> Please note that the --force flag is available via XML-RPC only, it is
>>> completely hidden from the user otherwise.
>>
>> Minor issue but requires NACK.
>>
>> You changed the add_zone() signature to always require some parameters,
>> but did not update it in ipa-replica-prepare
>>
>> Simo.
>
> Good catch, thank you!
>
> Attached is a new patch. I also found out that I don't have to require
> all the parameters as some (such as admin email) have nice defaults in
> the DNS plugin.

This fixes it but I did have problems with overall approach.

To test this I changed the host entry of my machine from slinky to 
spanky and ran the installer with --hostname=spanky.domain.

This worked for the initial install and I was able to find the previous 
problem with ipa-replica-prepare.

But I ran into other problems when testing this fix. The `hostname` of 
the machine is still slinky and very little actually worked. Restarting 
httpd failed and running ipa-replica-prepare failed because both were 
trying to contact the LDAP server on slinky, etc.

Once I ran hostname spanky.domain everything worked fine.

So ack for this bug but how should we handle these other problems?

Oh, and I've pushed it to master.

rob