[Freeipa-users] Failed to fall over to replica with master down

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 04:15:28PM +0530, Sanju A wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have configured IPA and later configured  master-master replication. But 
> it failed to fall over to the replica when master down. Please help
> Here are the details.

What it "it" ? A client machine running on a client different than any
of these two servers?

> 
> ipa.example.com - 192.168.1.51
> ipa2.example.com - 192.168.1.61
> 
> Command using for joining machines : ipa-client-install --mkhomedir 
> --domain=example.com --server=ipa.example.com --realm=EXAMPLE.COM 
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I suspect this would be the culprit. Please check sssd.conf on the
clients, especially the ipa_server directive. It should either be empty
or the first record should be "_srv_".