[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 362 Add LDAP server fallback to client installer

[Rob Crittenden]

Martin Kosek wrote:
> When ipa-client-install is run without --server option, it tries to
> search SRV records for IPA/LDAP server hostname, but it returns only
> the first record found and when the LDAP server on that hostname is
> not available, the whole client installation fails.
>
> Get all LDAP SRV records instead and fallback to next hostname when
> the current one is not available.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3388

I worked on the same ticket, unfortunately, but I didn't mark it as 
assigned which caused some duplicate effort. Sorry about that.

I came up with a very similar solution but took it a bit further. This 
expands the treatment of the discovered servers as a list of servers 
rather than a single value.

I do a bit more aggressive testing of all servers returned and remove 
any from the list that are not IPA servers. A server not responding is 
left in the configured list.

rob
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