[Freeipa-users] adding PTR record for a host on the network

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 23:30 -0400, Tim Hildred wrote:
> I am trying to install the RHEV-M on a box with a hostname of rhel6.mysandbox.com, which is also where my free IPA install lives. RHEV-M needs reverse lookups, otherwise fails. I've tried to add one with this command:
> 
> ipa dnsrecord-add rhel6.mysandbox.com --ptr-rec 4.22.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> 
> 
> No dice. Have I got that wrong? 

Should look like this:
ipa dnsrecord-add 22.168.192.in-addr.arpa 4 --ptr-rec rhel6.mysandbox.com.

To zone 22.168.192.in-addr.arpa add record named '4' of type PTR with value rhel6.mysandbox.com.

Simo.

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