[PATCH v2] samba-tool dns: Give a better error message when people get the server parameter wrong

[Kai Blin]

On 2012-11-14 13:01, Rowland Penny wrote:

Hi Rowland,

thanks for your input.

> Hi, Now I will be the first to acknowledge that I know nothing about
> writing software, but instead of writing a better error message,
> wouldn't it be better to fix the problem?

Sure. :)

> On my samba4 server (ipaddress 192.168.0.10, FQDN adserver.home.lan) all
> the following commands work & give the same information
> 
> samba-tool dns serverinfo 127.0.0.1
> samba-tool dns serverinfo 192.168.0.10
> samba-tool dns serverinfo adserver
> samba-tool dns serverinfo adserver.home.lan
> 
> The only command that fails is:
> samba-tool dns serverinfo localhost

I wasn't aware that the dcerpc bind string can be a hostname as well.
All I ever tried was localhost, and that never worked. :)
Thanks for the heads up.

> Wouldn't it be better to get localhost to work and print an error
> message along the lines of 'information not available for <what ever was
> given>, please check and retry' if the wrong server was given.

Sure. Someone with more clue about this DCE/RPC stuff, why doesn't
localhost work? :)

Cheers,
Kai

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Kai Blin
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