[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPAv2 with dns zones stored in ldap

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 07:59 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:
> > We actually have both the sdb and the DLZ backends built for bind in
> > Fedora (and IIRC in RHEL bind). So the backends are not a huge problem.
> >
> > Using a script like that present some problems like the fact that it
> > would be one way so DNS Updates would still be a problem (otherwise we
> > need something that can read from the cache file generated from bind and
> > feed back to ldap.
> >
> > I want to look and see if it is easy enough to modify either sdb or dlz
> > to allow at least dns updates, we can implement a local cache in the
> > backend if performances are too bad.
> 
> I wasn't aware of those patches already being in bind, thankyou.
> 
> 'bind-9.3.1rc1-sdb.patch' is in the srpm, but there isn't any mention
> of dlz anywhere
> in bind-9.3.3-10.el5.src.rpm. Are the dlz patches only in the RHEL 5.2?
> 
> If you get one of these backends to cache results using bind, will you submit
> it upstream to isc?

Yes anything we do we will try as hard as possible to feed back
upstream, we really do not want to fork bind or anything else.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York