[libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for DNS TXT records

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Wed Mar 30 11:02:16 UTC 2011


On 03/30/2011 01:00 PM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>> I think you should triage it a bit more, e.g. with strace -ff.  Anyway,
>> there is no hurry of doing this I think.
>
> Well, you mean to use strace on the daemonized process?

Wherever it helps understanding what's happening. :)

>>> Also, I've been testing the --txt-record once again and not grabbed it
>>> with wireshark and I had to query the "txt-record" TXT record for this
>>> and the wireshark was showing the quotes there as well now. Should I
>>> disable it then and use the working syntax for record name which
>>> (according to my testing) is to use *--txt-record=txt-record,"some
>>> value, which is something"* instead, i.e. to not use quotes in the name?
>> I absolutely cannot parse this sentence.
>
> Well, what I meant was that if I invoked dnsmasq with
> --txt-record="txt-record", "some value" then I had to dig for
> "txt-record" with quotes, i.e. using the dig TXT \"txt-record\" syntax
> in bash. In Wireshark it was showing request for record with the quotes,
> i.e. "txt-record" instead of querying just for txt-record, i.e. without
> quotes. To be able to query it without quotes I had to invoke dnsmasq
> with --txt-record=txt-record, "some value" arguments.

Who was escaping the double-quotes?

Paolo




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