Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for DNS TXT records

On 03/30/2011 12:41 PM, Michal Novotny wrote: > 1) /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces > --pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.pid --conf-file= > --except-interface lo --txt-record="txt-record","some value, which is > something" --addn-hosts=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.hosts > --listen-address 192.168.122.1 --dhcp-range > 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254 > --dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.leases > --dhcp-lease-max=253 --dhcp-no-override > > -> the guest was unable to access the records from --addn-hosts (tested > using nslookup) > > 2) /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces > --pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.pid --conf-file= > --except-interface lo --txt-record="txt-record","some value, which is > something" --addn-hosts=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.hosts > --listen-address 192.168.122.1 --dhcp-range > 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254 > --dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.leases > --dhcp-lease-max=253 --dhcp-no-override --no-daemon > > -> the --no-daemon option made it working for the --addn-hosts but it > was not working without it, i.e. in the daemon mode. Based on this I > guess this is the bug in Fedora-14 DNSMasq (which is the same as the one > for Fedora-14 since I'm unable to get any update and the version I'm > having is dnsmasq-2.52-1.fc13.i686). Should I file a bug against DNSMasq > about this? I think you should triage it a bit more, e.g. with strace -ff. Anyway, there is no hurry of doing this I think.

> Also, I've been testing the --txt-record once again and not grabbed it > with wireshark and I had to query the "txt-record" TXT record for this > and the wireshark was showing the quotes there as well now. Should I > disable it then and use the working syntax for record name which > (according to my testing) is to use *--txt-record=txt-record,"some > value, which is something"* instead, i.e. to not use quotes in the name? I absolutely cannot parse this sentence.