[Freeipa-users] DNS configuration

Wed Dec 3 08:46:20 UTC 2014

On 3.12.2014 04:35, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 12/02/2014 08:54 PM, Matthew Herzog wrote:
>> Any other ideas? I just spun up a new VM and took the defaults on everything
>> while running ipa-server-install (the defaults did make sense) and my new VM
>> can't resolve -anything- in the domain in which it lives. The "old" VM
>> (running the same versions of everything on the same OS) can't even resolve
>> the clients I have registered with it!
>>
>> So I'm pretty frustrated and am wondering, what _exactly_ is the role of
>> bind in the IPA server and how is it expected to know anything about the
>> local DNS domain without becoming a bind slave server?
> 
> I am not sure I am 100% with you but...
> If you use the defaults and nothing else you get to the scenario when IPA has
> its DNS but it is a self contained environment. It seems that this is what you
> observe.
> It is expected that you decide in advance what you want to do with DNS. There
> are several options:
> 1) You can delegate a zone to IPA to manage, then you need to connect your IPA
> DNS to your existing DNS during install or after.
> In this case the systems joined to IPA will be a part of IPA domain/zone and
> would also be able to resolve other systems around
> 2) Not use IPA DNS if you do not want to take advantage of it
> 3) Have a self contained demo/lab environment that you currently observe.
> 
> What is the intent?

I agree with Dmitri, we need more information from you:
- You said "my new VM can't resolve -anything- in the domain in which it
lives." - Which domain do you mean?

- Apparently you have configured FreeIPA to serve zone e-bozo.com. Do you have
this zone configured on some other DNS server at the same time?

Please keep in mind that authoritative servers should share the database. You
will get naming collisions if e-bozo.com is served by FreeIPA DNS servers and
some other servers at the same time. Maybe that is the problem you see right now.

As Dmitri said, the architecturally correct solution is to decide if you want
to use FreeIPA DNS or not. You have option to either remove non-FreeIPA DNS
servers and import data to FreeIPA or to add FreeIPA-specific DNS records to
existing DNS servers and do not configure FreeIPA to act as DNS server.

Petr^2 Spacek

>> Thanks.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com
>> <mailto:pspacek at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 2.12.2014 17:36, Martin Basti wrote:
>>     > On 02/12/14 17:28, Matthew Herzog wrote:
>>     >> I just realized that my IPA servers cannot resolve ANY servers
>>     in my domain.
>>     >> What do I need to do to fix this? Below is my named.conf.
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >> options {
>>     >>         // turns on IPv6 for port 53, IPv4 is on by default for
>>     all ifaces
>>     >>         listen-on-v6 {any;};
>>     >>
>>     >>         // Put files that named is allowed to write in the
>>     data/ directory:
>>     >>         directory "/var/named"; // the default
>>     >>         dump-file  "data/cache_dump.db";
>>     >>         statistics-file  "data/named_stats.txt";
>>     >>         memstatistics-file "data/named_mem_stats.txt";
>>     >>
>>     >>         forward first;
>>     >>         forwarders {
>>     >>                 10.100.8.41;
>>     >>                 10.100.8.40;
>>     >>                 10.100.4.13;
>>     >>                 10.100.4.14;
>>     >>                 10.100.4.19;
>>     >>                 10.100.4.44;
>>     >>         };
>>     >>
>>     >>         // Any host is permitted to issue recursive queries
>>     >>         allow-recursion { any; };
>>     >>
>>     >>         tkey-gssapi-keytab "/etc/named.keytab";
>>     >>         pid-file "/run/named/named.pid";
>>     >> };
>>     >>
>>     >> /* If you want to enable debugging, eg. using the 'rndc trace'
>>     command,
>>     >>  * By default, SELinux policy does not allow named to modify
>>     the /var/named
>>     >> directory,
>>     >>  * so put the default debug log file in data/ :
>>     >>  */
>>     >> logging {
>>     >>         channel default_debug {
>>     >>                 file "data/named.run";
>>     >>                 severity dynamic;
>>     >>                 print-time yes;
>>     >>         };
>>     >>         };
>>     >> };
>>     >>
>>     >> zone "." IN {
>>     >>         type hint;
>>     >>         file "named.ca <http://named.ca> <http://named.ca>";
>>     >> };
>>     >>
>>     >> include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
>>     >>
>>     >> dynamic-db "ipa" {
>>     >>         library "ldap.so";
>>     >>         arg "uri
>>     ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-BO3-E-BOZO-COM.socket";
>>     >>         arg "base cn=dns, dc=bo3,dc=e-bozo,dc=com";
>>     >>         arg "fake_mname freeipa-poc01.bo3.e-bozo.com
>>     <http://freeipa-poc01.bo3.e-bozo.com>
>>     >> <http://freeipa-poc01.bo3.e-bozo.com>.";
>>     >>         arg "auth_method sasl";
>>     >>         arg "sasl_mech GSSAPI";
>>     >>         arg "sasl_user DNS/freeipa-poc01.bo3.e-bozo.com
>>     <http://freeipa-poc01.bo3.e-bozo.com>
>>     >> <http://freeipa-poc01.bo3.e-bozo.com>";
>>     >>         arg "serial_autoincrement yes";
>>     >> };
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     > Hello,
>>     >
>>     > which version ipa do you use? which platform? Which version
>>     bind-dyndb-ldap?
>>     >
>>     > Can you run these commands, and check if there any errors?
>>     > ipactl status
>>     > systemctl status named  (respectively journalctl -u named)
>>
>>     We also may want to see information listed on page
>>     https://fedorahosted.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/wiki/BugReporting