Replace DNS client based on acutil with python-dns

IPA client and server tool set used authconfig acutil module to
for client DNS operations. This is not optimal DNS interface for
several reasons:
- does not provide native Python object oriented interface
  but but rather C-like interface based on functions and
  structures which is not easy to use and extend
- acutil is not meant to be used by third parties besides
  authconfig and thus can break without notice

Replace the acutil with python-dns package which has a feature rich
interface for dealing with all different aspects of DNS including
DNSSEC. The main target of this patch is to replace all uses of
acutil DNS library with a use python-dns. In most cases, even
though the larger parts of the code are changed, the actual
functionality is changed only in the following cases:
- redundant DNS checks were removed from verify_fqdn function
  in installutils to make the whole DNS check simpler and
  less error-prone. Logging was improves for the remaining
  checks
- improved logging for ipa-client-install DNS discovery

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2730
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1837

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/ipalib/plugins/dns.py b/ipalib/plugins/dns.py
index b0e65ab94..e26332d46 100644
--- a/ipalib/plugins/dns.py
+++ b/ipalib/plugins/dns.py
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ from ipalib.plugins.baseldap import *
 from ipalib import _, ngettext
 from ipalib.util import (validate_zonemgr, normalize_zonemgr,
         validate_hostname, validate_dns_label, validate_domain_name)
-from ipapython import dnsclient
-from ipapython.ipautil import valid_ip, CheckedIPAddress
+from ipapython.ipautil import valid_ip, CheckedIPAddress, is_host_resolvable
 from ldap import explode_dn
 
 __doc__ = _("""
@@ -2610,17 +2609,8 @@ class dns_resolve(Command):
             query = '%s.%s.' % (query, api.env.domain)
         if query[-1] != '.':
             query = query + '.'
-        reca = dnsclient.query(query, dnsclient.DNS_C_IN, dnsclient.DNS_T_A)
-        rec6 = dnsclient.query(query, dnsclient.DNS_C_IN, dnsclient.DNS_T_AAAA)
-        records = reca + rec6
-        found = False
-        for rec in records:
-            if rec.dns_type == dnsclient.DNS_T_A or \
-              rec.dns_type == dnsclient.DNS_T_AAAA:
-                found = True
-                break
 
-        if not found:
+        if not is_host_resolvable(query):
             raise errors.NotFound(
                 reason=_('Host \'%(host)s\' not found') % {'host': query}
             )