[Freeipa-users] Setting up replication, documentation unclear regarding DNS entries

[Dmitri Pal]

On 04/09/2012 02:07 PM, KodaK wrote:
> I have two IPA servers.  The primary/master is SLPIDML01 and the
> replica is SLPIDML01.  I have followed the instructions for creating a
> replica and the install on SLPIDML02 completed successfully.  However,
> the instructions tell me to add some entries to the DNS zone file, and
> I'm stumped.
>
> The FreeIPA documentation has this to say about setting up DNS for replicas:
>
> Updating DNS for IPA Replicas
>
> After you have configured a new IPA replica, you should update your
> DNS entries so that IPA clients can discover the new server. For
> example, for an IPA replica with a server name of $HOST, you should
> add the following entries to your zone file:
>
> _ldap._tcp             IN SRV 0 100 389	$HOST
> _kerberos._tcp         IN SRV 0 100 88 $HOST
> _kerberos._udp         IN SRV 0 100 88 $HOST
> _kerberos-master._tcp  IN SRV 0 100 88 $HOST
> _kerberos-master._udp  IN SRV 0 100 88 $HOST
> _kpasswd._tcp          IN SRV 0 100 464 $HOST
> _kpasswd._udp          IN SRV 0 100 464 $HOST
> _ntp._udp              IN SRV 0 100 123 $HOST
>
> I know very little about configuring DNS.  Where exactly should this
> go?  It says to add it to your zone file, all I see is a
> named.rfc1912.zones file, and it appears to be rather structured.  Do
> I just dump these at the end?  That doesn't seem to make any sense.  I
> see a reference to /var/named/example.com.zone.db, but I don't have
> one for my domain, and I still don't know what the format of the file
> should be.  Do I need to make entries for both hosts (and any others I
> add in the future?)
>

What DNS server do you use?
Did you consider using DNS server that comes with IPA?

> Thanks,
>
> --Jason
>
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-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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