[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Add new env variables. 'container_dns' for DNS plugin, 'use_ldap2' for new LDAP backend debugging.

[Martin Nagy]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:21:17 -0400, Rob Crittenden
<rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Martin Nagy wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:02:07 -0400, Rob Crittenden
> > <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Pavel Zuna wrote:
> >>> container_dns is required by the DNS plugin (currently being
> >>> reviewed).
> >>>
> >>> use_ldap2 is for testing purposes: just a temporary and should be 
> >>> deleted after we switch completely to the new LDAP backend.
> >>>
> >>> Pavel
> >>>
> >> What will be stored in cn=dns? I haven't seen the plugin.
> > 
> > DNS records for the bind LDAP plug-in.
> > 
> 
> Ok, maybe this has been discussed before and I've forgotten, but is 
> there going to be any linkage between DNS host entries and cn=hosts? 
> Should any referential integrity be done? It is quite a rat hole if
> we start down that path.

IIRC we (me, Simo and Dmitri) agreed that there won't be any linkage. At
best, we could provide a link from one to the other in the Web UI, but
that's not necessary at all. Everything under cn=dns will be used by
the DNS server, so there might actually be records that IPA has no idea
about. It's basically just a replacement for flat zone files.

Martin