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.zh...@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 <arpittol...@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 > > -- Thanks & Regards Arpit Tolani _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-users mailing list -- freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-users-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org