[Freeipa-users] DNS A record for IPA server is not created

[Dmitry Perets]

Hi,

With ipa-server 4.6.4-10.el7_6.2 on RHEL7, I see the following issue....
My host name is a bit long, of a form: idm01.site01.poc.my.network.com
I am installing a fresh new IPA server on this host, with DNS server.
Running ipa-server-install without arguments.

During installation I can specify the DNS zone to create.
If I specify poc.my.network.com, then I get the following error:

ipapython.dnsutil: ERROR    DNS query for idm01.site01.poc.my.network.com.
1 failed: All nameservers failed to answer the query
idm01.site01.poc.my.network.com. IN A: Server 127.0.0.1 UDP port 53
answered SERVFAIL

I can see that the A record for the IPA server itself (idm01.site01) wasn't
created during installation.

But if I leave the default DNS zone (site01.poc.my.network.com), then
everything works fine, the record is created (the record name in that case
is just idm01).

Of course, I can create the record manually, and it seems to work fine. But
is it expected?
Any other issues that I should expect with my non-default zone...?

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Regards,
Dmitry Perets.

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