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From 78ef6581483190fc60fc928fb2263f5520a5edfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Spacek <pspacek@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:44:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] DNS server upgrade: do not fail when DNS server did not
 respond

Previously, update_dnsforward_emptyzones failed with an exeception if
DNS query failed for some reason. Now the error is logged and upgrade
continues.

I assume that this is okay because the DNS query is used as heuristics
of last resort in the upgrade logic and failure to do so should not have
catastrophics consequences: In the worst case, the admin needs to
manually change forwarding policy from 'first' to 'only'.

In the end I have decided not to auto-start BIND because BIND depends on
GSSAPI for authentication, which in turn depends on KDC ... Alternative
like reconfiguring BIND to use LDAPI+EXTERNAL and reconfiguring DS to
accept LDAP external bind from named user are too complicated.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6205

Reviewed-By: Martin Basti <mbasti@redhat.com>
---
 ipaserver/install/plugins/dns.py | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipaserver/install/plugins/dns.py b/ipaserver/install/plugins/dns.py
index 32247eedbac7fc7e00c7277ef0bc593a74cd22e4..7b06a5c0d3a59e5825af75fae87c9739a53d9913 100644
--- a/ipaserver/install/plugins/dns.py
+++ b/ipaserver/install/plugins/dns.py
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import dns.exception
 import re
 import traceback
 import time
@@ -489,8 +492,15 @@ class update_dnsforward_emptyzones(DNSUpdater):
         self.api.Command['dnsconfig_mod'](ipadnsversion=2)
 
         self.update_zones()
-        if dnsutil.has_empty_zone_addresses(self.api.env.host):
-            self.update_global_ldap_forwarder()
+        try:
+            if dnsutil.has_empty_zone_addresses(self.api.env.host):
+                self.update_global_ldap_forwarder()
+        except dns.exception.DNSException as ex:
+            self.log.error('Skipping update of global DNS forwarder in LDAP: '
+                           'Unable to determine if local server is using an '
+                           'IP address belonging to an automatic empty zone. '
+                           'Consider changing forwarding policy to "only". '
+                           'DNS exception: %s', ex)
 
         return False, []
 
-- 
2.7.4