[Freeipa-users] hosts/clients joining IPA but dns updating not working

[Martin Kosek]

On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 01:15 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just started adding hosts/clients but DNS isnt being updated for the client(s).
> 
> Screenshot of error is attached....
> 

Hello Steven,

there is something wrong with your host keytab. As written in the
output, ipa-client-install could not get a TGT for
host/vuwunicorh6ws04 at ODS.VUW.AC.NZ and thus nsupdate which performs the
DNS update failed.

Can you please attach a relevant portion of ipaclient-install.log so
that we can get more information about why it failed?

Alternatively, you can list credentials in the keytab with this command
yourself:
# klist -kt /etc/krb5.keytab

To test obtaining the TGT from the host keytab and thus reproducing this
issue, you can run this command:
# kinit -k -t /etc/krb5.keytab host/vuwunicorh6ws04 at ODS.VUW.AC.NZ

The command output itself, or KRB5KDC logs in IPA server should provide
a hint why the kinit fails.

Martin