#1466 PR `merged`: Resolve $PXE_TFTP_IP to IP if hostname or FQDN are used¶

Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done

schabrolles opened issue at 2017-09-01 09:46:¶

Grub2 net_default_server_opt variable must be a real IP not a hostname or fqdn.
=> if a user do not specify PXE_TFTP_IP, this one will be "guess" from the "PXE_TFTP_URL".
But we need to be sure it is a real numeric IP. if not we need to try to resolve the name to IP.

Creation of two new functions in network-functions.sh

create is_ip() function
create get_ip_from_fqdn() function

schlomo commented at 2017-09-01 12:44:¶

For my personal taste way too much code for little benefit. What does it protect against? Are you worried that in some case getent will not start the output from an IP? If we don't find an example of that now then I strongly suspect that this tool will always return an IP as the first word - or nothing.

Personally I'd rather start with simple code and make it more complex when we know the problem.

schabrolles commented at 2017-09-01 13:06:¶

@schlomo changes applied

schabrolles commented at 2017-09-01 15:16:¶

@schlomo done and tested against SLES12

schabrolles commented at 2017-09-04 18:14:¶

@schlomo, I think we are now ready to merge this one.

schlomo commented at 2017-09-04 18:29:¶

👍 please merge

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#1466 PR merged: Resolve $PXE_TFTP_IP to IP if hostname or FQDN are used¶