[Freeipa-users] DNS zone delegation

Loris Santamaria loris at lgs.com.ve
Wed Feb 1 18:21:20 UTC 2012


Hi,

I have a dns zone managed by IPA and I'm trying to delegate a zone
managed by Active Directory.

The IPA managed zone is called "corpfbk", and the AD one is
"ad.corpfbk".

I started by adding the proper glue records:

ipa dnsrecord-add corpfbk ns1.ad --a-rec=192.168.3.36
ipa dnsrecord-add corpfbk ns2.ad --a-rec=192.168.3.241

Then I add what I consider should be the zone delegation:

ipa dnsrecord-add corpfbk ad --ns-rec=ns1.ad.corpfbk.,ns2.ad.corpfbk.

Problem is, IPA DNS can't resolve any host in the ad.corpfbk zone,
except ns1 and ns2. Recursion is enabled in named.conf. Dig results:

dig @localhost ad.corpfbk NS +norecurse
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21862
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ad.corpfbk.			IN	NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ad.corpfbk.		86400	IN	NS	ns1.ad.corpfbk.
ad.corpfbk.		86400	IN	NS	ns2.ad.corpfbk.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
corpfbk.		86400	IN	NS	ipa01.central.corpfbk.
corpfbk.		86400	IN	NS	ipa02.central.corpfbk.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.ad.corpfbk.	86400	IN	A	192.168.3.36
ns2.ad.corpfbk.	86400	IN	A	192.168.3.241
ipa01.central.corpfbk.	86400	IN	A	192.168.3.6
ipa02.central.corpfbk.	86400	IN	A	192.168.3.16

It seems to me, and after testing with other non-IPA based DNS servers,
that the response shouldn't have and "Answer section", but it should
have an "authority section" pointing to ad.corpfbk.

I am doing something wrong? Should I file a bug?

Thanks
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