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Description of problem: ipa forwarder information not available after ipa-server upgrade. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ipa-server-4.4.0-12.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: Tried once Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup ipa server on RHEL 7.2.z.(In my case I ran command) #ipa-server-install --ip-address <ipa addr> -r testrelm.test -p 'password' -a 'password' --forwarder 10.x.x.x -U --setup-dns 2. Now setup latest repo links for RHEL 7.3 3. Update ipa server using command: # yum -y update 'ipa*' sssd 4. Now run command to verify forwarder details: # ipa dnsserver-show `hostname` # ipa dnsserver-find `hostname` 5. At server UI, verify the DNS forwarder details are available at server UI at path: "Network Services > DNS > DNS Servers > "Server name" > Forwarders:" Actual results: 1. After step4, # ipa dnsserver-find `hostname` -------------------- 1 DNS server matched -------------------- Server name: ipaserver.testrelm.test ---------------------------- Number of entries returned 1 ---------------------------- # ipa dnsserver-show `hostname` Server name: ipaserver.testrelm.test 2. After step5, No Information available at "Network Services > DNS > DNS Servers > "Server name" > Forwarders:" Expected results: Forwarder server hostname or ip details should be correctly displayed after step4 and step5. Additional info: This issue is not observed in case of fresh install of ipa-server on latest version of RHEL i.e 7.3.
We did not implement this on purpose, it is not trivial to parse and edit named.conf correctly, even with augeas there might be some issues, so we played safe and rather not to break named.conf
Per triage on Sep 27, devel team doesn't plan to implement it. https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5997