Bug 681595

Summary:	No new NS records are added to the zone on replica.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Dmitri Pal <dpal>
Component:	doc-Identity_Management_Guide	Assignee:	David O'Brien <daobrien>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.1	CC:	jhrozek
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Description Dmitri Pal 2011-03-02 16:52:35 UTC

When user installs a new DNS instance on a replica, no new NS records are added to the zone. Admin must do so manually.

It would be nice to have this documented for 2.0

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1034

Jakub, please add more details to this BZ.

Comment 1 Jakub Hrozek 2011-03-03 09:12:19 UTC

We discussed this issue yesterday with Simo and agreed that we probably can't fix it for 2.0 GA, so we should at least document this for the time being and fix later - so please bear in mind that we're describing a faulty behaviour that would change in a future version.

When a replica is installed, it doesn't contain a DNS server by default even if the master does. Admin must install the DNS instance manually with ipa-dns-install.

The problem is, that the current code wouldn't add a NS record for this new name server into any of the managed DNS zones. The admin must add them manually using "ipa dnsrecord-add <zone> @ --ns-rec <replica-with-DNS-FQDN>".

As with ordinary NS records, the FQDN must really be fully qualified (=end with a dot, for example ns.example.com.) otherwise Bind would treat the hostname as relative to the domain.

Comment 2 David O'Brien 2011-03-15 06:25:48 UTC

Added section 7.4.2. Installing and Configuring DNS on IPA Replicas

Setting MODIFIED.

Will brew and push later this week.
Created commit 3efa563

Comment 3 David O'Brien 2011-03-28 05:20:30 UTC

Latest build now available on http://documentation-stage.bne.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/Enterprise_Identity_Management_Guide/index.html

Current version:
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Enterprise_Identity_Management_Guide-96-web-en-US-0.6-25.el5

Comment 4 Jakub Hrozek 2011-03-28 09:07:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Latest build now available on
> http://documentation-stage.bne.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/Enterprise_Identity_Management_Guide/index.html
> 
> Current version:
> Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Enterprise_Identity_Management_Guide-96-web-en-US-0.6-25.el5

Looks good to me, thank you.