Re: [Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Use DNS forwarders in /etc/named.conf
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 07:54 +1000, David O'Brien wrote: Martin Nagy wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:50 +1000, David O'Brien wrote: Martin Nagy wrote: Hi, This patch adds options --forwarder and --no-forwarders. At least one of them must be used if you are doing a setup with DNS server. They are also mutually exclusive. The --forwarder option can be used more than once to specify more servers. If the installer runs in interactive mode, it will prompt the user if none of these option was given at the command Martin Something like ipa-server-install --setup-dns --forwarder IP --forwarder IP ? You can't use a separated list of IP addresses to save space and typing? That may go against coding style or practice, I don't know... /me has user hat on :-) Hm, well, we use a python module to handle option parsing [1] and this is the way it handles lists. We could allow the IP addresses to be separated by, say, ',' but this also has the risk that the user will do --forwarder 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5 which of course wouldn't work (the last IP is treated as a positional argument). Martin [1] http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html ok, well if it's SOP to handle options this way I'm not about to suggest otherwise[1], but if there were a user-friendly way of doing it that didn't bend or break any rules I'd make more noise. cheers David [1] One of the goals in ECS' style guide is to adhere as much as possible to industry standards and standard practice, not invent new ones that Red Hat likes better. I'll patch it to also accept comma-separated IP addresses, it's not that big a deal :) Martin ___ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
Re: [Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Use DNS forwarders in /etc/named.conf
Martin Nagy wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:50 +1000, David O'Brien wrote: Martin Nagy wrote: Hi, This patch adds options --forwarder and --no-forwarders. At least one of them must be used if you are doing a setup with DNS server. They are also mutually exclusive. The --forwarder option can be used more than once to specify more servers. If the installer runs in interactive mode, it will prompt the user if none of these option was given at the command Martin ___ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel Something like ipa-server-install --setup-dns --forwarder IP --forwarder IP ? You can't use a separated list of IP addresses to save space and typing? That may go against coding style or practice, I don't know... /me has user hat on :-) Hm, well, we use a python module to handle option parsing [1] and this is the way it handles lists. We could allow the IP addresses to be separated by, say, ',' but this also has the risk that the user will do --forwarder 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5 which of course wouldn't work (the last IP is treated as a positional argument). Martin [1] http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html ok, well if it's SOP to handle options this way I'm not about to suggest otherwise[1], but if there were a user-friendly way of doing it that didn't bend or break any rules I'd make more noise. cheers David [1] One of the goals in ECS' style guide is to adhere as much as possible to industry standards and standard practice, not invent new ones that Red Hat likes better. -- David O'Brien IPA Content Author Red Hat Asia Pacific +61 7 3514 8189 http://freeipa.org/page/DocumentationPortal http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/ipadocs.git He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~ Chinese proverb ___ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
Re: [Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Use DNS forwarders in /etc/named.conf
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:50 +1000, David O'Brien wrote: Martin Nagy wrote: Hi, This patch adds options --forwarder and --no-forwarders. At least one of them must be used if you are doing a setup with DNS server. They are also mutually exclusive. The --forwarder option can be used more than once to specify more servers. If the installer runs in interactive mode, it will prompt the user if none of these option was given at the command Martin ___ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel Something like ipa-server-install --setup-dns --forwarder IP --forwarder IP ? You can't use a separated list of IP addresses to save space and typing? That may go against coding style or practice, I don't know... /me has user hat on :-) Hm, well, we use a python module to handle option parsing [1] and this is the way it handles lists. We could allow the IP addresses to be separated by, say, ',' but this also has the risk that the user will do --forwarder 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5 which of course wouldn't work (the last IP is treated as a positional argument). Martin [1] http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html ___ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
