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

[Martin Nagy]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:08:33 -0400, Rob Crittenden
<rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Martin Nagy wrote:
> > 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?
> >>
> >> Looks like the reverse_host and reverse_subnet code you are adding
> >> to bindinstance.py won't work on IPv6.
> > 
> > I took a look at the code in ipa-server-install and it seems that it
> > doesn't have to work on IPv6. If you look on resolve_host() in there
> > (and I practically copied almost the same code for
> > ipa-replica-install), you'll notice that it uses the
> > socket.gethostbyname() function. This function, according to [1]
> > does not support IPv6.
> > 
> > We probably should think about reworking the code to support IPv6
> > and ideally also test it. But at least for now, I think the code
> > for zones is good enough, given that we don't support IPv6.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > [1] http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.gethostbyname
> 
> Ok, ack then.
> 
> rob

Pushed to master.

Martin