Hello
Try to run below commands on your IPA client & point resolv.conf to IPA server & IPA client
# dig srv _ldap._tcp.dataservice.net # dig srv _kerberos._tcp.dataservice.net # dig srv _kpasswd._tcp.dataservice.net
If they return your IPA servers, It can automatically figure out your IPA servers using DNS resolver
Regards Arpit Tolani
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:17 PM, wenxing zheng wenxing.zheng@gmail.com wrote:
I setup a IPA server: freeipa-server and a replica: freeipa-replica, both with embedded DNS. I have 2 server addresses: freeipa-server.dataservice.net and freeipa-replica.dataservice.net.
When I am configuring the IPA client using the ipa-client-install, how to specify the "--server" option? or it can automatically figure out the server via the DNS resolver?
Thanks, Wenxing
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Arpit Tolani arpittolani@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
Can you help to shed more lights on how to configure the SRV records for auto discovery?
When ipa-server is setup with embedded DNS (using --setup-dns ) SRV records are automatically added in IPA.
If its external DNS server, You need to add records something like this in your DNS server.
_ldap._tcp.example.com. 86400 IN SRV 0 100 389 ipaserver1.example.com. _kerberos._tcp.example.com. 86400 IN SRV 0 100 88 ipaserver1.example.com. _kerberos._udp.example.com. 86400 IN SRV 0 100 88 ipaserver1.example.com. _kpasswd._tcp.example.com. 86400 IN SRV 0 100 464 ipaserver1.example.com. _kpasswd._udp.example.com. 86400 IN SRV 0 100 464 ipaserver1.example.com.
After this client will auto discover IPA server which is providing LDAP & Kerberos information.
Regards Arpit Tolani