• If /etc/hosts resolves the same hostname to multiple IP addresses, normally, only the first should be returned. This is probably not the case since the code later on crashes inside a designate-central's script, when resolving it (a function like aton) with a SyntaxError instead of something more explanatory or a custom exception. Why not even smartly avoiding the problem?
• The pools.yaml file can only use IPs and hostnames are not resolved later on by rndc.
• rndc package is not a dependency! Pointers for it's configs exist, the commands to run are specified but the bind9utils package is nowhere listed to be installed

Designate is an OpenStack project, providing DNSaaS.

IRC: #openstack-dns

Installation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/designate/getting-started.html

Designate follows the OpenStack Gerrit Workflow

Setup a working environment:

git clone https://github.com/openstack/designate.git
cd designate
virtualenv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt -r test-requirements.txt
python setup.py develop

To build the documentation from the restructured text source, do the following:

cd doc
pip install -r requirements.txt
sphinx-build  source/ build/html/

now point your browser at html/index.html (the official documentation is published to docs.openstack.org by the maintainers.

Install the git-review package to make life easier

pip install git-review

Branch, work, & submit:

# cut a new branch, tracking master
git checkout --track -b bug/id origin/master
# work work work
git add stuff
git commit
# rebase/squash to a single commit before submitting
git rebase -i
# submit
git-review

Execute a single test using py27 (test is CentralServiceTest.test_count_domains)

tox -e py27 -- designate.tests.test_central.test_service.CentralServiceTest.test_count_zones_policy_check

• Free software: Apache license
• Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/designate
• Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/designate
• Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/designate