[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA bind also-notify behavior.

[Martin Kosek]

On 09/01/2014 07:50 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 08/29/2014 09:32 PM, Matthew Sellers wrote:
>> Hi Everyone!
>>
>> I am using FreeIPA 3.3.5 on Fedora 20 and attempting to configure FreeIPA to
>> send notifies to non-IPA slaves, but it seems broken on IPA ( notify packets
>> are never sent to to slaves ).
>>
>> I have configured also-notify { nameserverip; };  in named.conf on my FreeIPA
>> test host in the options section and watched for notify traffic with tcpdump.
>>
>> This document suggests that this is supported, and this is something I have
>> used in non-IPA bind servers with no issues.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav3_dns_zone_transfer
>>
>> I wanted to ask the list before I file a bug with more details.   Is anyone
>> using this bind feature on IPA with any success?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Matt
>>
>>
> 
> The DNS level change propagation is not supported between IPA replicas instead
> it uses LDAP replication to propagate the changes.
> If you want another non IPA DNS server to be a slave then you can do it. See
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V3/DNS_SOA_serial_auto-incrementation for more
> information.

I thought that from F20, bind-dyndb-ldap was capable of native DNS operations
like AXFR/IXFR which can be used to actually deploy slave DNS servers. I wonder
if also-notify is something different. CCing Petr Spacek to advise.