[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 057 Validate MX records

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Feb 16 14:28:58 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:45:12PM -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Jakub Hrozek wrote:
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> >https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/967
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> >I'm wondering whether to extend the patch - if the mail server name does
> >not end with a dot, BIND treats it as relative to the zone.
> >
> >So if you do:
> >ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --mx-rec="10 mail.example.com"
> >
> >dig would then return mail.example.com.example.com
> >
> >The correct way of adding it is (note the trailing dot):
> >ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --mx-rec="10 mail.example.com."
> >
> >This is in line with how nsupdate works, so should we just document it?
> >A smarter way might be to check if the hostname ends with the zone name
> >and append a dot, but I'm not sure if that perhaps /too/ smart..
> 
> While we're at this should we enforce that prio is >= 0 and < MAXINT ?

Good suggestion, thanks. As per the MX record documentation I found it
should actually be between 0 and 65535, so this is what the patch
enforces.

Jan's suggestion to rename the parameter is also included.

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>From 329beb70070748ed108ecd528cd0fee2f9b1ee36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:40:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Validate MX records

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/967

diff --git a/API.txt b/API.txt
index 6f0c32f..9e34647 100644
--- a/API.txt
+++ b/API.txt
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ option: List('ipseckeyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ipseckey_rec',ist('ips
 option: List('keyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec',ist('keyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KEY records', label='KEY record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('kxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec',ist('kxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KX records', label='KX record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('locrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec',ist('locrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec', doc='comma-separated list of LOC records', label='LOC record', multivalue=True)
-option: List('mxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True)
+option: List('mxrecord?', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord?', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('naptrrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec',ist('naptrrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NAPTR records', label='NAPTR record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('nsrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec',ist('nsrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NS records', label='NS record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('nsecrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec',ist('nsecrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NSEC records', label='NSEC record', multivalue=True)
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ option: List('ipseckeyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ipseckey_rec',ist('ips
 option: List('keyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec',ist('keyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KEY records', label='KEY record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('kxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec',ist('kxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KX records', label='KX record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('locrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec',ist('locrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec', doc='comma-separated list of LOC records', label='LOC record', multivalue=True)
-option: List('mxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True)
+option: List('mxrecord?', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord?', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('naptrrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec',ist('naptrrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NAPTR records', label='NAPTR record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('nsrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec',ist('nsrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NS records', label='NS record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('nsecrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec',ist('nsecrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NSEC records', label='NSEC record', multivalue=True)
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ option: List('ipseckeyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ipseckey_rec',ist('ips
 option: List('keyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec',ist('keyrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KEY records', label='KEY record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('kxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec',ist('kxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KX records', label='KX record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('locrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec',ist('locrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec', doc='comma-separated list of LOC records', label='LOC record', multivalue=True)
-option: List('mxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True)
+option: List('mxrecord?', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord?', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('naptrrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec',ist('naptrrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NAPTR records', label='NAPTR record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('nsrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec',ist('nsrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NS records', label='NS record', multivalue=True)
 option: List('nsecrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec',ist('nsecrecord?', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NSEC records', label='NSEC record', multivalue=True)
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ option: List('ipseckeyrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='ipseckey_rec',ist('ipse
 option: List('keyrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec',ist('keyrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='key_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KEY records', label='KEY record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
 option: List('kxrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec',ist('kxrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='kx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of KX records', label='KX record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
 option: List('locrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec',ist('locrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='loc_rec', doc='comma-separated list of LOC records', label='LOC record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
-option: List('mxrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
+option: List('mxrecord', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec',ist('mxrecord', _validate_mx, attribute=True, cli_name='mx_rec', doc='comma-separated list of MX records', label='MX record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
 option: List('naptrrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec',ist('naptrrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='naptr_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NAPTR records', label='NAPTR record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
 option: List('nsrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec',ist('nsrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='ns_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NS records', label='NS record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
 option: List('nsecrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec',ist('nsecrecord', attribute=True, cli_name='nsec_rec', doc='comma-separated list of NSEC records', label='NSEC record', multivalue=True, query=True, required=False)
diff --git a/ipalib/plugins/dns.py b/ipalib/plugins/dns.py
index 1437011..0bc9447 100644
--- a/ipalib/plugins/dns.py
+++ b/ipalib/plugins/dns.py
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ EXAMPLES:
  Add second nameserver for example.com:
    ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --ns-rec nameserver2.example.com
 
+ Add a mail server for example.com:
+   ipa dnsrecord-add example.com @ --mx-rec mail2
+
  Delete previously added nameserver from example.com:
    ipa dnsrecord-del example.com @ --ns-rec nameserver2.example.com
 
@@ -136,11 +139,28 @@ def _validate_srv(ugettext, srv):
 
     return None
 
+def _validate_mx(ugettext, mx):
+    try:
+        prio, host = mx.split()
+    except ValueError:
+        return u'format must be specified as "priority mailserver"'
+
+    try:
+        prio = int(prio)
+    except ValueError:
+        return u'the value of priority must be integer'
+
+    if prio < 0 or prio > 65535:
+        return u'the value of priority must be between 0 and 65535'
+
+    return None
+
 _record_validators = {
     u'A': _validate_ipaddr,
     u'AAAA': _validate_ipaddr,
     u'APL': _validate_ipnet,
     u'SRV': _validate_srv,
+    u'MX': _validate_mx,
 }
 
 def has_cli_options(entry, no_option_msg):
-- 
1.7.4



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