[Freeipa-users] Configuring IPA replicas

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On 06/13/2011 04:41 PM, Ade Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The replica installation is failing when the replica attempts to contact
> the CA on the master to log into the security domain.  According to your
> log, this is https://ipa01.ix.test.com:9445
>
> Can the master be resolved and reached from the replica?  Can port 9445
> be reached (as well as ports 9444 and 9443?)
>
> You can also check the master's /var/log/pki-ca/debug log to see if any
> communication was received from the replica.
>

There was an additional DNS A record added to the existing IPA server 
hostname! This additional DNS A record pointed at the IP address of the 
replica IPA server I'm attempting to configure! I removed this A record 
and the replica installed successfully.

When I initially ran the ipa-replica-prepare command, I added the 
"--ip-address" option to get the DNS records for this host created. (I 
have a seperate dns domain for the IPA environment.) In this process 
ipa-replica-prepare created an additional reverse zone on the server. 
(The new ipa replica resides on a subnet which sits at a AD DNS server, 
but it's still resolvable from the IPA dns servers).

After the replica finished I tried to run the ipa-replica-prepare 
command again with a new hostname, and adding an IP address using 
--ip-address on a subnet not known to the IPA DNS. The same error was 
re-produced, the DNS A record was added to the master IPA server.

I would also like to note that I cannot see the second DNS entry using 
the web gui, only using "ipa dnsrecord-find". Bug opened in bugzilla for 
ipa-replica-prepare:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712920


Rgds,
Siggi