[et-mgmt-tools] Do you use cobbler's support for dnsmasq?

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

	This patch makes the mac passed to OMSHELL to be lowercase

	Regards
	Pablo



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Postulado de Boling sobre la Ley de Murphy:

Si se encuentra bien, no se preocupe. Se le pasará

On Sat, 3 May 2008, Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:

> 	Hi
> 	This patch fixes a typo in sync code for removing dinamically
> leases (the function was renamed but this call was not renamed
> accordingly).
>
> 	There's also a patch for settings file to show isc_set_host_name
>
> 	And if interesting, changing ksdevice for bootif to use the one
> used in PXE
>
> 	Regards
> 	Pablo
>
> PD: buildiso works fine and found nothing wrong with the rest yet
>
>
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> Pablo Iranzo Gómez
> (http://Alufis35.uv.es/~iranzo/)
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>                   --
> Postulado de Boling sobre la Ley de Murphy:
>
> Si se encuentra bien, no se preocupe. Se le pasará
>
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> > Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > > Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > >> With John Eckersberg's recent patch (and likely future extensions),
> > >> Cobbler will be acquiring very good support for bind, so Cobbler can
> > >> manage DHCP and DNS at the same time using more scalable tools.
> > >> Similarly, we can now manage DHCP without restarts (Pablo Iranzo
> > >> Gomez's patch).    So then, I'm wondering what are the reasons we
> > >> would have for continuing to support dnsmasq?
> > >>
> > >> If you would be affected by removal of dnsmasq support, I'd like to
> > >> hear from you, as to why you would like it to stay in place.   This
> > >> does not neccessarily eliminate the ability to have seperate options
> > >> in Cobbler for (more modular) DHCP/DNS choices in the future.
> > >> (Likely this is something we could use /etc/cobbler/modules.conf for).
> > >>
> > >> --Michael
> > >>
> > >
> > > dnsmasq is useful for small test networks that are running isolated
> > > from the rest of the infrastructure. Having it available as an
> > > optional module simplifies quick deployment and removal.
> > >
> > > I am thinking along the lines of - project x poc x test - in a
> > > consulting toolbag.
> > >
> > > That said I would much rather have BIND support over dnsmaq.
> > >
> > > -sg
> >
> > I decided to modularize the code more and am keeping dnsmasq (and supporting
> > it in addition to BIND).   For those not familiar, the reason dnsmasq is
> > different
> > is that it supports *both* dnsmasq and dhcp at the same time.  It
> > actually also contains
> > a miniature TFTP server, but since the distro already has one we like,
> > we don't use that.
> >
> > How it's working at the moment in 0.9.X (devel/git), FWIW:
> >
> > Go into /etc/cobbler/modules.conf
> >
> > [dns]
> > module = manage_bind
> > [dhcp]
> > module = manage_isc
> >
> > (Or set both fields to manage_dnsmasq for dnsmasq)
> >
> > [dns]
> > module = manage_dnsmasq
> > [dhcp]
> > module = manage_dnsmasq
> >
> > And in /var/lib/cobbler/settings, there are seperate booleans for:
> >
> > manage_dhcp:  0/1
> > manage_dns: 0/1
> >
> > So you can use ISC without BIND, and BIND without ISC, or dnsmasq for
> > only half
> > of what it does, etc.
> >
> > These are still driven by templates in /etc/cobbler -- one each for BIND
> > (named), ISC, and dnsmasq.
> >
> > I am sorely due for writing a "what's new" in 1.0 document for the Wiki,
> > that will describe what the
> > upgrade process is and what all the changelog features are.
> >
> > omapi is seperately enabled in /var/lib/cobbler/settings:
> >
> > omapi_enabled: 0/1
> > omapi_port: 647
> >
> > This only applies when manage_dhcp is enabled and the module in use is ISC.
> >
> > Given this is going to require some good testing, so I'll do a test
> > release before adding anything else.
> > I think this cleans things up nicely and still allows people to add
> > their own DHCP/DNS servers into
> > modules fairly cleanly if they use something different, without having
> > to have a bunch of "ifs" in the sync code.
> >
> > Folks are welcome to try this now, though there are no doubt a few bugs
> > which we will be ironing out next week.
> >
> > The Wiki needs to be updated also to include more docs on this and
> > sample template files.   I'll also probably be moving
> > more of the static HTML from cobbler.et.redhat.com to the Wiki so people
> > can update it when they come up with
> > interesting tricks as well as corrections.
> >
> > --Michael
> >
> >
> > >
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