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

[Michael Gregg]

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.
>
>   
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Well. I just opened a bug for this exact issue.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674200

I wouldn't have if I had seen this email thread first.

I'm sorry if I'm creating more work unnecessarily.

I'll quietly ignore this issue, as it's already being worked on.

Michael-