[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Set of patches to enable DNS work in replica

[Martin Nagy]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:39:28 -0400, Rob Crittenden
<rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Martin Nagy wrote:
> > Patches are attached. Now we also provide an option --setup-dns to
> > ipa-replica-install that will set up BIND, but will only create the
> > zone if it didn't exist before. One patch also introduces reverse
> > zone, which we didn't have before.
> > 
> > Martin
> >
> 
> A couple of questions.
> 
> So when installing a replica a bind instance isn't required? In other 
> words, you could have a mixed environment where some IPA servers do
> DNS and others don't?

Yes, you can. This is deliberate.

> Looks like the reverse_host and reverse_subnet code you are adding to 
> bindinstance.py won't work on IPv6.

Uhm, no, good point. I'll try to figure something out.

> Does --setup-bind do anything at all now?

No, good catch. I wanted to leave it there so QE can transit
peacefully. I'll change dest from 'setup_bind' to 'setup_dns' so the
effect of both options is the same.

Martin