From f1ed123caddd7525a0081c4a9de931cabdfda43f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Kosek Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 14:38:09 +0200 Subject: 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 --- ipapython/README | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'ipapython/README') 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 -- cgit