On Jun 2, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Jerry Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Paul Querna <[email protected]> wrote:
Okay, I think leveraging DNS makes a ton of sense.
My question is then, how do we have a client from the libcloud side?
Unless I'm being exceptionally thick headed, I don't see how you can
make requests for txt record types in the standard python library?
http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.gethostbyname
(and the variants gethostbyname_ex and getaddrinfo)
I am less than enthused if we would need another dependency to
access
txt records from dns. There are several possible libraries, PyDNS
and
dnspython are at the top of google results.
On Jun 2, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Ian Kallen wrote:
FWIW, I previously used dnspython for a homebrewed failover
application and elsewhere for dynamic DNS updating, worked great for
me in both those cases.
IMHO I think it would be awesome to not have another dependency and
make a really specialized DNS TXT lookup module.
But I suppose I should back that up with a patch first!
Jerry
Forgive me, but what is the big issue with dependencies? Why spend
valuable time writing and debugging a DNS module when dependencies
don't effect the way 99% of people would install the libcloud package?
Even after the drawn out anti-zope.interface argument, I still don't
get it. If a module is well-tested, stable, and available via the
cheese shop, there's no downside to using it (from my perspective,
anyway).
