[Freeipa-users] Using CNAME to point to different domain name [SOLVED]

[Martin Basti]

On 07/05/15 18:30, Andrey Ptashnik wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thank you for a catch! I just noticed that I was missing the dot you 
> mentioned!
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrey
>
>
> From: Martin Basti <mbasti at redhat.com <mailto:mbasti at redhat.com>>
> Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 2:37 AM
> To: Andrey Ptashnik <aptashnik at cccis.com 
> <mailto:aptashnik at cccis.com>>, "freeipa-users at redhat.com 
> <mailto:freeipa-users at redhat.com>" <freeipa-users at redhat.com 
> <mailto:freeipa-users at redhat.com>>
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Using CNAME to point to different domain name
>
> On 06/05/15 22:28, Andrey Ptashnik wrote:
>> Hello Team,
>>
>> We are hosting a few servers at Amazon and using their Elastic Load 
>> Balancing service that gives us a link to a load balancer in the 
>> following format:
>>
>> webserver-1234567890.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
>>
>> I was looking for a ways to implement a shorter alias using CNAME like:
>>
>> webserver.mydomain.com   pointing to longer link from the load 
>> balancer webserver-1234567890.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com
>>
>> Is there a way to do it in RHEL 7.1 with IPA server 4.1.0 using 
>> different domain names?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andrey
>>
>>
>>
> Hello Andrey,
>
> If I understand correctly, IPA manages mydomain.com zone, so adding 
> CNAME record should be simple:
>
> ipa dnsrecord-add mydomain.com webserver 
> --cname-rec='webserver-1234567890.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com.' # <-- 
> do not forget to add dot at the end
>
> If mydomain.com is managed outside IPA, the CNAME should be set on 
> that external server, IPA cannot help in this case.
>
> Martin
> -- 
> Martin Basti
You are welcome.

-- 
Martin Basti

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