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

[Oleg Fayans]

Hi Martin,

On 10/20/2015 10:26 AM, Martin Basti wrote:
>
>
> On 20.10.2015 10:17, Oleg Fayans wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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)?

Yes, I did. In fact, I just upgraded the server to the latest version 
from upstream, and the issue is gone.

>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>

-- 
Oleg Fayans
Quality Engineer
FreeIPA team
RedHat.