[Freeipa-users] Configuring IPA replicas

[Rob Crittenden]

Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
> 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

Adding the record has already been fixed upstream, 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704012

rob