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

[Martin Basti]

On 20.10.2015 10:17, Oleg Fayans wrote:
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> On 10/20/2015 10:10 AM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>> 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?
> It works, I added an output of ping command to show that
dnsrecord-add and host-add works for me, A records is resolvable.

Do you have configured /etc/resolv.conf properly on host? (or network 
manager DNS configuration)?

>>
>> Other option is to add host with --ip-address option so you can skip the
>> dnsrecord-add call.
>
> I know, but there must be a way to fix the host if an admin forgot to 
> add this option. So, ideally, I should be able to create a host, then 
> add a dnsrecord, then add a service. Now, obviously it's not the case:
>
> root at f22master:/home/ofayans]$ ping trololo.pesen.net
> PING trololo.pesen.net (192.168.122.200) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ^C
> --- trololo.pesen.net ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms
>
> root at f22master:/home/ofayans]$ ipa service-add 
> someservice/trololo.pesen.net
> ipa: ERROR: Host does not have corresponding DNS A/AAAA record
> root at f22master:/home/ofayans]$ ipa dnsrecord-show
> Record name: trololo
> Zone name: pesen.net.
>   Record name: trololo
>   A record: 192.168.122.200
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>