[Freeipa-users] How to reference to IPA Server in Multi-Master Setup ?

[Petr Spacek]

On 25.1.2016 12:08, Zeal Vora wrote:
> Thanks Petr.
> 
> So if the domain is example.com, in DNS, what would be the IP associated
> with it ?
> 
> As there are 2 master servers, each of them will have different IP address.

Please see following text about DNS SRV records:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record

I hope it helps.

Petr^2 Spacek

> 
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25.1.2016 10:47, Zeal Vora wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have setup a multi-master IPA and it seems to be working fine.
>>>
>>> The clients ( laptops and servers ) are not using the DNS of IPA.
>>>
>>> I was wondering, while configuring ipa-client, which server do I
>> reference
>>> to when it asks the ipa-server hostname ?
>>>
>>> Both the master server has different hostnames.
>>>
>>> master1.example.com  ( Master 1 )
>>> master2.example.com  ( Master 2 )
>>
>> Specify only --domain option and do not use --server option at all. In will
>> enable server auto-detection using DNS SRV records and you will not need to
>> worry about adding/removing servers because all clients will automatically
>> pick the new list up.
>>
>> --
>> Petr^2 Spacek