[Freeipa-devel] Host does not have corresponding DNS A/AAAA record

[Petr Vobornik]

On 10/20/2015 09:57 AM, Oleg Fayans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep hitting a strange issue: when I create a dnsrecord manually and
> then try to create the host, it complains that the host does not have
> corresponding DNS A/AAAA record.
>
> ofayans at f22master:~]$ ipa dnsrecord-add
> Record name: fortest
> Zone name: pesen.net.
> Please choose a type of DNS resource record to be added
> The most common types for this type of zone are: A, AAAA
>
> DNS resource record type: A
> A IP Address: 192.168.122.253
>    Record name: fortest
>    A record: 192.168.122.253
> ofayans at f22master:~]$ ipa host-add
> Host name: fortest.pesen.net
> ipa: ERROR: Host does not have corresponding DNS A/AAAA record
> ofayans at f22master:~]$ ping fortest
> PING fortest.pesen.net (192.168.122.253) 56(84) bytes of data.

The check uses DNS resolution to get the info. Does it work well?

Other option is to add host with --ip-address option so you can skip the 
dnsrecord-add call.


>
> When I then use --force to create the host anyway and then try to add a
> service to this host, I get the same error:
>
> ofayans at f22master:~]$ ipa service-add
> Principal: fortest/fortest.pesen.net
> ipa: ERROR: The host 'fortest.pesen.net' does not exist to add a service
> to.
>

This error tells that the host entry does not exist.
-- 
Petr Vobornik