[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 202 Add reverse DNS record when forward is created

[Rob Crittenden]

Martin Kosek wrote:
> Adding reverse DNS record may be a time consuming task, especially
> for IPv6 addresses. Having a way to automatically create a reverse
> record when a forward record is created could speed up the process.
> host-add command already has this possibility.
>
> This patch takes advantage of the new per-type API and adds new
> options for A/AAAA record types: --a-create-reverse and
> --aaaa-create-reverse. These commands can be used to automatically
> create reverse records for new A/AAAA addresses (both forward
> and reverse zones need to be managed by FreeIPA server):
>
> ipa dnsrecord-add example.com foo --a-rec=10.0.0.1 --a-create-reverse
>
> This command would add a new A record to record foo in zone
> example.com and a PTR record to appropriate reverse zone for
> IP address 10.0.0.1 (for example PTR record 1 in zone
> 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. pointing to foo.example.com.).
>
> Few modification were done to new DNS API to support this feature:
>   - Refactor --ip-address option handling from host-add and place it
>     to dns.py to be used by both modules
>   - Add support for "extra" per-type options
>   - Hide DNS record part options in dnsrecord_find command as they
>     have no effect for this command
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2009

Can the options -a-create-reverse and -aaaa-create-reverse be combined? 
I was able to create an IPv4 addr using -aaaa-create-reverse:

# ipa dnsrecord-add example.com baz --a-rec=192.168.166.115 
--aaaa-create-reverse
   Record name: baz
   A record: 192.168.166.115

Otherwise the patch seems fine.

rob