[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 057 Validate MX records

[Jan Zelený]

Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek at redhat.com> wrote:
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/967
> 
> I'm wondering whether to extend the patch - if the mail server name does
> not end with a dot, BIND treats it as relative to the zone.
> 
> So if you do:
> ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --mx-rec="10 mail.example.com"
> 
> dig would then return mail.example.com.example.com
> 
> The correct way of adding it is (note the trailing dot):
> ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --mx-rec="10 mail.example.com."
> 
> This is in line with how nsupdate works, so should we just document it?
> A smarter way might be to check if the hostname ends with the zone name
> and append a dot, but I'm not sure if that perhaps /too/ smart..

Just a nitpicking here, but shouldn't the second arg of the function be called 
mx or something like that?

Jan