Bug 680504 – Can not delete reverse DNS record - interactive CLI mode

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Bug 680504 - Can not delete reverse DNS record - interactive CLI mode

Summary:	Can not delete reverse DNS record - interactive CLI mode

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	ipa (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.1
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	unspecified Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.1
Assigned To:	Rob Crittenden
QA Contact:	Chandrasekar Kannan
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Keywords:	Reopened

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Reported:	2011-02-25 13:20 EST by Jenny Galipeau
Modified:	2015-01-04 18:46 EST (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	ipa-2.1.0-1.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: DNS forward and reverse entries are stored discretely. Removing one does not remove the other unless specifically requested and it was unclear how one would do that. Consequence: The user would not know how to proceed to remove the required entries in order to re-add a host. Fix: A new interactive mode was added to the CLI to walk the user through removing the required entries. Result: It is now more straightforward and understandable to remove all DNS entries for a host.
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Last Closed:	2011-12-06 13:20:32 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:1533	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: ipa security and bug fix update	2011-12-05 20:23:31 EST

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Description Jenny Galipeau 2011-02-25 13:20:43 EST

Description of problem:
After install ipa-client and then uninstalling, then deleting the host record.  The forward dns record was removed, but the reverse dns record was not and it can not be deleted manually.  And can not add the host again.

ldap server entry:
<snip>

# 34, 62.16.10.in-addr.arpa., dns, testrelm
dn: idnsname=34,idnsname=62.16.10.in-addr.arpa.,cn=dns,dc=testrelm
objectClass: top
objectClass: idnsrecord
pTRRecord: f14-client.testrelm.
idnsName: 34

</snip>

ipa host-add:

# ipa host-add --ip-address=10.16.62.34 f14-client.testrelm
ipa: ERROR: This IP address is already assigned.

ipa dnsrecord-del:
# ipa host-add --ip-address=10.16.62.34 f14-client.testrelm
ipa: ERROR: This IP address is already assigned.
[root@f14-server ~]# ipa dnsrecord-del
Zone name: 62.16.10.in-addr.arpa.
Record name: 34
ipa: ERROR: Neither --del-all nor options to delete a specific record provided.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freeipa-server-2.0-0.20110222T1825Zgit397da3f.fc14.x86_64
freeipa-admintools-2.0-0.20110222T1825Zgit397da3f.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
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Expected results:


Additional info:

The errror message:
"ipa: ERROR: Neither --del-all nor options to delete a specific record provided."  is incorrect and not helpful.

Comment 1 Simo Sorce 2011-02-25 13:46:34 EST

Please use the --del-all switch as ipa asks you to.

Comment 2 Jenny Galipeau 2011-02-25 14:21:40 EST

reopening bug as interactive mode does not use --del-all ... or prompt for record type,  maybe it should assume --del-all ?

Comment 3 Simo Sorce 2011-02-25 14:53:27 EST

I guess it should either prompt to ask if you really want to delete all, or prompt to ask for the record type to delete.

Comment 4 Simo Sorce 2011-02-25 14:54:05 EST

(In reply to comment #3)
> I guess it should either prompt to ask if you really want to delete all, or
> prompt to ask for the record type to delete.

By this I mean it could present a list of records and "all" would be an option.

HTH

Comment 5 Dmitri Pal 2011-02-25 19:56:33 EST

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1018

Comment 8 Martin Kosek 2011-06-02 03:06:48 EDT

Upstream commit:
master: 585083c1d7a0069579d45b17adb39ad8f522c3f6

Comment 10 Jenny Galipeau 2011-10-05 12:45:47 EDT

Verified

# ipa dnsrecord-del
Zone name: 64.16.10.in-addr.arpa.
Record name: 99
No option to delete specific record provided.
Delete all? Yes/No (default No): Yes
-------------------
Deleted record "99"
-------------------

ipa-server-2.1.1-4.el6.x86_64

Comment 11 Rob Crittenden 2011-10-31 11:27:52 EDT

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Cause: DNS forward and reverse entries are stored discretely. Removing one does not remove the other unless specifically requested and it was unclear how one would do that.
Consequence: The user would not know how to proceed to remove the required entries in order to re-add a host.
Fix: A new interactive mode was added to the CLI to walk the user through removing the required entries.
Result: It is now more straightforward and understandable to remove all DNS entries for a host.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 13:20:32 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1533.html

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