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[Andrew Bogott <abogott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boris --

The floating IP functionality uses a plugable back-end driver which 
communicates between the extension and the DNS server of your choice.  
As far as I know, the only back end that's currently implemented is for 
pdns, so unless you're running pdns over ldap you may have to write your 
own driver to get things working.

The good news is that the driver interface is quite simple, and writing 
additional drivers doesn't take long.  I wrote the DNS code and 
implemented the one existing driver, and I'd be happy to coach you in 
getting the code that you need put together (and potentially merged back 
into Nova.)

Feel free to write me off-list about your setup and about what you need, 
and I'll think about how to get you started.

-Andrew




On 7/5/12 1:15 PM, Boris-Michel Deschenes wrote:
> I don't understand how to use the floating IP dns extension.
>
> OK, I can add a domain for a project but what DNS server should I 
> query afterwards to resolve the name to an IP?
>
> The dnsmasq server running on my controller seems to only know about 
> the novalocal domain (which is the private network)
>
> or is it only usable through the API? even to resolve?
>
> GET /v1.1/<tenant_id>/os-floating-ip-dns/<domain>/entries/<name>
>
> # Sample Response:
>
> { 'dns_entry' :
>
>   { 'ip' : '192.168.53.11',
>
>     'type' : 'A',
>
>     'domain' : <domain>,
>
>     'name' : <name> }}
>
> thanks
>
> Boris
>
>
>
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