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author | Martin Kosek <mkosek@redhat.com> | 2012-05-11 14:38:09 +0200 |
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committer | Martin Kosek <mkosek@redhat.com> | 2012-05-24 13:55:56 +0200 |
commit | f1ed123caddd7525a0081c4a9de931cabdfda43f (patch) | |
tree | f615dabc3535203fbd2777166dbe150f6d31197e /ipapython/README | |
parent | 6bb462e26a814e683b3ec5b39d2ff9a1db8fa4ec (diff) | |
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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
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ipapython/README b/ipapython/README index ec2bb3a52..a724a7faa 100644 --- a/ipapython/README +++ b/ipapython/README @@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ geared currently towards command-line tools. A brief overview: -config.py - identify the IPA server domain and realm. It uses dnsclient to +config.py - identify the IPA server domain and realm. It uses python-dns to try to detect this information first and will fall back to /etc/ipa/default.conf if that fails. -dnsclient.py - find IPA information via DNS ipautil.py - helper functions |