[Freeipa-users] failure to register dns on joining IPA domain

[Natxo Asenjo]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On 11/19/2012 05:28 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> hi,
>>
>>> The log showed the root cause:
>>> Dynamic Update is not allowed in zone
>>> idnsname=ipa.asenjo.nx,cn=dns,dc=ipa,dc=asenjo,dc=nx
>>
>>
>> omg!!!
>>
>> I grepped the log for errors (error/panic/denied/deny) but missed that.
>
> Sorry, the error messages are not very nice. I have a ticket for log message
> cleanup/consolidation/standardization but I don't have enough time ...
> https://fedorahosted.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/ticket/62
>
> In future version it should return more descriptive error code (rather than
> general SERVFAIL).
>
>
>> thanks for not shaming me in public ;-) and for helping me find this, of
>> course.
>
> Actually, I replied privately by mistake :-)
>
> I still want to post the solution publicly to make it available via archive.
> Do you re-post the solution yourself? Feel free to re-formulate the message
> :-)

For the posterity :-), my dns zone did not allow dynamic updates and
thus the registration of the dns host failed miserably.

Thanks to Petr for helping me find this.

-- 
groet,
natxo