[Freeipa-users] DNS and $GENERATE Directive

[Dmitri Pal]

On 11/10/2014 03:25 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 11/08/2014 12:16 AM, Andrew Powell wrote:
>> Is there a way to add a Bind $GENERATE directive line to FreeIPA to
>> automatically name DHCP-assigned ranges?
>>
>> In a file-based Bind installation, I can have the following line in the forward
>> example.com zone file:
>>
>> $generate 80-250/1 wd${0,3,d}.example.com. A 192.168.0.$
>>
>> (which adds records wd080.example.com thru wd250.example.com)
>>
>> And for the reverse zone (0.168.192.in-addr.arpa) I can have the following line:
>>
>> $generate 80-250/1 $ PTR wd${0,3,d}.example.com.
>>
>> I can do without naming the DHCP-assigned ranges, but it seems like the proper
>> thing to do.
>>
> Interesting question. I do not think bind-dyndb-ldap supports the $GENERATE
> directive. I am not even sure how to extend LDAP DNS tree to support it as it
> has a very specific syntax. You would need to add a new LDAP space accepting
> strings that would be then passed to BIND... I will let Petr to assess if this
> is possible or not.
>
> For now, the best approach would be to either add all these records to LDAP or
> to have it in a BIND zone file and synchronize between all FreeIPA DNS servers.
>
> Martin
>
Would an ipa command solve the problem?
Something like:

ipa dns-generate 80-250/1 $ PTR wd${0,3,d}.example.com.

If yes please file an RFE.

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.