[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 077 Redirection to PTR records from A, AAAA records

[Endi Sukma Dewata]

On 2/9/2012 7:57 AM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> Address column in A, AAAA DNS records was extended by redirection
> capabilities.
> Redirection dialog is shown after a click on a value.
> Dialog does following steps:
> 1) fetch all dns zones
> 2) find most accurate reverse zone for IP address
> 2 -fail) show error message, stop
> 3) checks if target record exists in the zone
> 3 -fail) show 'dns record create link', stop
> 4) redirects
>
> Click on 'dns record create link':
> 1) creates record
> 1 -fail) show error, stop
> 2) redirects
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1975

One minor issue:

1. After redirection the breadcrumb doesn't link to the correct zone. 
Try this:

a) Open the details page of an A record.
b) Click the IP address (create the PTR record if necessary), it will 
show the PTR record.
c) Click the reverse zone in the breadcrumb, it will go to the forward zone.

Possible improvements:

2. We can also create a link from the PTR record to go back to the A record.

3. When all of the redirection steps work correctly, the redirection 
dialog will appear and then disappear immediately. There's no time to 
read the message. I think the redirection steps should be done in the 
background after clicking the link and the dialog should only appear 
when there's an error. So it might be better to move the redirection 
code into the redirection column.

4. The dialog is an error dialog, so the dialog title could say 
something like "Unable to open PTR record". From users' perspective they 
are following a link, it's not a redirection.

5. The messages shown in the dialog can be simplified. Users don't need 
to know the detailed steps such as fetching the DNS zones, etc. If 
there's no matching reverse zone it could just say something like:

   Reverse DNS zone for <IP address> not found.

If there's a reverse zone but no PTR record, it could say something like 
this:

   PTR record for <IP address> not found.
   [Create PTR Record]

6. To be consistent, all user action that changes the data should be 
presented as a button. So the "Create PTR Record" above should be 
converted into a button.

-- 
Endi S. Dewata