[Freeipa-users] ip changed

[Rob Crittenden]

Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 05:38 AM, george he wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I have free-ipa set up on my lab machines all running Fedora 17.
>> Today the lab was moved to another building on campus and the IPs have to be
>> changed.
>> Now that the IPs are changed, I cannot even run kinit on the ipa-server.
>> The error message returned with kinit is "connot contact any KDC for realm
>> MYREALM while getting initial credentials"
>> What I have done to change the IPs is to run system-config-network, modify the
>> file /etc/hosts, and call the IT department to update the DNS server entries.
>> What else do I need to do to make the ipa work with the new IPs?
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>> George
>>
>
> If you have FreeIPA with DNS support, you also need to update FreeIPA server
> A/AAAA records in LDAP. ipa "dnsrecord-mod" command should be able to do that
> if you have /etc/hosts set properly.
>
> Besides that, you should be OK with the changes you already requested.
> Important thing is that hostname cannot change, which as I understand is not
> the issue.
>
> With the changes I described, does the FreeIPA server start and works for you?
> If not, please send error messages and we can sort it out.

You might want to check /etc/hosts too to be sure that it doesn't have 
stale IP entries.

rob