On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:09:11PM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote: > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/967 > > I'm wondering whether to extend the patch - if the mail server name does > not end with a dot, BIND treats it as relative to the zone. > > So if you do: > ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --mx-rec="10 mail.example.com" > > dig would then return mail.example.com.example.com > > The correct way of adding it is (note the trailing dot): > ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --mx-rec="10 mail.example.com." > > This is in line with how nsupdate works, so should we just document it? > A smarter way might be to check if the hostname ends with the zone name > and append a dot, but I'm not sure if that perhaps /too/ smart..
Hello, I would rather not include this logic. DNS traditionally allows such flexibility; admins must modify zones (in text form or in LDAP) carefully. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel