[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 021 Make the IPA installer IPv6 friendly

[Rob Crittenden]

Jan Zelený wrote:
> Jakub Hrozek<jhrozek at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/15/2010 10:55 AM, Jan Zelený wrote:
>>> Jakub Hrozek<jhrozek at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>> This is a first patch towards IPv6 support. Currently it only touches
>>>> the installer only as other changes will be fully testable only when
>>>> python-nss is IPv6 ready.
>>>>
>>>> Changes include:
>>>>   * parse AAAA records in dnsclient
>>>>   * also ask for AAAA records when verifying FQDN
>>>>   * do not use functions that are not IPv6 aware - notably
>>>>
>>>>     socket.gethostbyname(). The complete list of functions was taken
>>>>     from http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html
>>>>     section "Interface Checklist"
>>>
>>> Nack, the patch doesn't handle situations when host cannot be resolved.
>>>
>>> Jan
>>
>> Thanks, it didn't handle the case in ipa-replica-install, now it should
>> catch the exception and return None (and the caller would react upon
>> getting None for the IP address).
>>
>> In krbinstance.py it would still raise an exception, but I think that is
>> OK during instance creation (we surely don't want to print anything).
>> The user would see the error string, anyway..
>
> ack
>
> Jan

pushed to master