[Freeipa-users] DNS Design for FreeIPA4

[William Muriithi]

‎Josh,

You will have problems if you go with below plan in my opinion. I used arrangements like the one you listed below when I used freeipa 2.2. This worked for me only when I had users hosted on freeipa. After upgrading to 3.3 for trust, it became very unreliable and had to point the ipa clients to ipa server for it to work reliably 

Especially if you plan to point them to AD, it wouldn't work as AD use dns for configuration just like ipa, do there will be conflict. 

William


We are currently piloting FreeIPA4 (RHEL 7.1 IdM) in our environment. We plan on establishing a trust with AD at some point during the POC. An overview of the current DNS design:

* FreeIPA runs integrated DNS (ie, ipa.domain.com)
* Servers in our environment (even once joined to IPA) continue to use our current non-IPA DNS infrastructure for name resolution
* Servers in our environment have hostnames in several other non-IPA domains (not ipa.domain.com)
* IPA DNS is configured to zone-transfer ipa.domain.com to our primary infrwastructure non-IPA DNS servers
* IPA is configured to forward all non ipa.domain.com requests to our primary infrastructure non-IPA DNS servers
* ipa.domain.com DNS can be resolved from all non-IPA DNS servers since it is a slave on our primary non-IPA DNS servers
* IPA can resolve our Active Directory DNS (ad.domain.lan)
* Active Directory DNS can resolve IPA DNS (ipa.domain.com)

Is this a sensible design for DNS? In this configuration, IPA does not appear to be creating DNS records in ipa.domain.com for the hosts that we add to IPA. This is presumably because the hosts themselves are in other domains (not ipa.domain.com) which are not controlled by IPA. Is this going to cause problems?

We have a requirement to keep all servers in our environment using our primary non-IPA DNS servers for resolution. It seemed logical to use IPA-integrated DNS just so IPA could manage the SRV/LDAP records automatically within the IPA zone. 

Any advice/tips/suggestions regarding this design would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Josh




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