[Freeipa-users] DNS Design for FreeIPA4

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:58:12 -0500
William Muriithi <william.muriithi at gmail.com> wrote:

> ‎Josh,
> 
> First, sorry for top posting, on a stupid cell.
> 
> You miss the point that dns is not only used for name resolution, but
> also hosting configurations. If something is not right about dns,
> lots of incorrect info will be embedded on your ipa clients.
> 
> Make it simple as Simon said and point your ipa clients to ipa
> servers. Redhat recommend you point your ipa clients to ipa server.
> Microsoft recommend the same thing, point windows clients to AD.

Hi William, we just recommend that IPA clients have names in IPA
managed domains, the DNS server the clients actually point to does not
really matter as long as proper DNS resolution happens (either using
forwarding or delegation).

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York