[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0045] Enforce host existence only where needed in ipa-replica-manage

[Dmitri Pal]

On 04/30/2013 08:32 AM, Tomas Babej wrote:
> On 04/11/2013 09:57 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Tomas Babej wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In ipa-replica-manage commands, we enforce that hostnames we work
>>> with are resolvable. However, this caused errors while deleting
>>> or disconnecting a ipa / winsync replica, if that replica was down
>>> and authoritative server for itself.
>>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3524
>>>
>>> Tomas
>>
>> I'm not sure this is going to do the right thing either. A lot of
>> these commands take the an argument as the remote master to run
>> things on, so we'd really only be validating one of the names. Not
>> sure how that helps us.
>>
> Actually, the patch tried to adress that. I carefully reviewed the
> effort, now we should be consistent in validating all the names.
>
>> What if we honor the --force flag for DNS lookup failures instead?
>> Or, since that could override it and do other things, a --no-lookup
>> flag perhaps?
>>
>> rob
>
> I added a --no-lookup flag for ipa-replica-manage that disables host
> existence check.

A new flag would need a design page.

>
> Sending both patches rebased.
>
> Tomas
>
>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

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