[Freeipa-users] Configuring IPA replicas

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On 06/13/2011 07:24 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>> On 06/13/2011 04:41 PM, Ade Lee wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The replica installation is failing when the replica attempts to 
>>> contact
>>> the CA on the master to log into the security domain. According to your
>>> log, this is https://ipa01.ix.test.com:9445
>>>
>>> Can the master be resolved and reached from the replica? Can port 9445
>>> be reached (as well as ports 9444 and 9443?)
>>>
>>> You can also check the master's /var/log/pki-ca/debug log to see if any
>>> communication was received from the replica.
>>>
>>
>> There was an additional DNS A record added to the existing IPA server
>> hostname! This additional DNS A record pointed at the IP address of the
>> replica IPA server I'm attempting to configure! I removed this A record
>> and the replica installed successfully.
>>
>> When I initially ran the ipa-replica-prepare command, I added the
>> "--ip-address" option to get the DNS records for this host created. (I
>> have a seperate dns domain for the IPA environment.) In this process
>> ipa-replica-prepare created an additional reverse zone on the server.
>> (The new ipa replica resides on a subnet which sits at a AD DNS server,
>> but it's still resolvable from the IPA dns servers).
>>
>> After the replica finished I tried to run the ipa-replica-prepare
>> command again with a new hostname, and adding an IP address using
>> --ip-address on a subnet not known to the IPA DNS. The same error was
>> re-produced, the DNS A record was added to the master IPA server.
>>
>> I would also like to note that I cannot see the second DNS entry using
>> the web gui, only using "ipa dnsrecord-find". Bug opened in bugzilla for
>> ipa-replica-prepare:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712920
>
> Adding the record has already been fixed upstream, 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704012

Excellent, Thanks. I assume this is coming to freeipa in F15 as well at 
some point?