[libcloud] Re: EC2 nodes and the "public_ip" attribute

[Tomaz Muraus <to...@cloudkick.com>]

I have talked with Paul and others on IRC and changed the EC2 driver to use
the "ipAddress" and "privateIpAddress" attributes now.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@cloudkick.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just wanted to modify the EC2 driver so the node public_ip address
> attribute would also contain all the Elastic IP addresses which are
> currently attached to this node, but I am not sure about one thing.
>
> Currently, we use the "dnsName" attribute for the node public IP address
> instead of "ipAddress" attribute -
> https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/trunk/libcloud/drivers/ec2.py#L354 (it
> is the same with the node private IP address - "privateDnsName" /
> "privateIpAddress").
>
> Is there any special reason why we do this (like, some old version of the
> API only returned DNS names and not the IP addresses)? If not, is it ok to
> change it to use the "ipAddress" & "privateIpAddress" attribute <
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/>?
>
> And even if there is a reason why we use DNS name, we don't resolve it
> anywhere so this is not really technically correct and consistent with the
> other drivers and it would be nice to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
> Tomaz
>
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