DNS zone origin record search

[John Morris]

This works to find a single DNS record:

$ ipa dnsrecord-find example.com --name=ipa-ca --pkey-only
       Record name: ipa-ca
     ----------------------------
     Number of entries returned 1
     ----------------------------

But this fails to find the origin record:

$ ipa dnsrecord-find example.com --name=@ --pkey-only
     ----------------------------
     Number of entries returned 0
     ----------------------------

It appears that the origin record is only treated inconsistently in 
`dnsrecord-find`; other dnsrecord commands work fine in the form 
`dnsrecord-* example.com @`.

How does one find ONLY for a zone's origin record?

Thanks-

John

[Martin Bašti]

On 11.06.2017 01:20, John Morris via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> This works to find a single DNS record:
> $ ipa dnsrecord-find example.com --name=ipa-ca --pkey-only
>   Record name: ipa-ca
> ----------------------------
> Number of entries returned 1
> ----------------------------
>
> But this fails to find the origin record:
> $ ipa dnsrecord-find example.com --name=@ --pkey-only
> ----------------------------
> Number of entries returned 0
> ----------------------------
>
> It appears that the origin record is only treated inconsistently in 
> `dnsrecord-find`; other dnsrecord commands work fine in the form 
> `dnsrecord-* example.com @`.
>
> How does one find ONLY for a zone's origin record?
>
> Thanks-
> John
>
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Hello,

why do you need a find for zone apex? There is always exactly one, you 
can use `ipa dnsrecord-show example.com. @`  OR `ipa dnsrecord-show 
example.com. example.com.`

What is your use case?

Martin

[John Morris]

On 06/12/2017 11:28 AM, Martin Bašti wrote:
> On 11.06.2017 01:20, John Morris via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> > This works to find a single DNS record:
> > $ ipa dnsrecord-find example.com --name=ipa-ca --pkey-only
> >   Record name: ipa-ca
> > ----------------------------
> > Number of entries returned 1
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > But this fails to find the origin record:
> > $ ipa dnsrecord-find example.com --name=@ --pkey-only
> > ----------------------------
> > Number of entries returned 0
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > It appears that the origin record is only treated inconsistently in
> > `dnsrecord-find`; other dnsrecord commands work fine in the form
> > `dnsrecord-* example.com @`.
> >
> > How does one find ONLY for a zone's origin record?
> >
> > Thanks-
> > John
> >
> > FreeIPA-users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to
> > [e-mail]
>
> Hello,
>
> why do you need a find for zone apex? There is always exactly one, you
> can use `ipa dnsrecord-show example.com. @`  OR `ipa dnsrecord-show
> example.com. example.com.`
>
> What is your use case?
>
> Martin

Hi Martin,

I've been adding some classes to the Ansible IPA modules.  The existing 
IPA modules use the `*_find` API method to locate existing objects.  I'm 
not sure why the original author doesn't use the `*_show` method, unless 
it's to allow for non-unique search keys, or if the `*_show` method 
doesn't exist for some object types.

Sounds like the answer is there's no equivalent to `dnsrecord-find 
zone.tld @` that will find the zone origin record.  I'll write a 
workaround.  Thanks-

John