[Freeipa-users] IPA server as a DNS server and design things

[Dmitri Pal]

On 05/18/2011 07:07 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> Qs,
>
> 1)  We have a single master only for freeipa 2.0?   so from what I can read the replicas are passive? ie do they answer LDAP queries

They are not passive. They are master clones and can in fact respond to
any traffic including administration via UI and CLI.
This is just an addition to Simo's response.

>  and also DNS queries if DNS is integrated? but simply dont have a gui? or are they totally inert?  Im thinking of this as we really want 2 active DNS servers minimum.......
>
> 2) We discussed its better to have DNS as a stub domain off the main domain.....so Linux servers will be unix.vuw.ac.nz.....should I do the same for the reverse lookup?
>
> Should I cleave off part of the class B?  say 2 x 24s?  problem then becomes what do I do with mixed environments where I have windows web front ends and linux db backends......or user areas where I cant do that...
>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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