Hi,

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 2:14 PM Jason Dunham via FreeIPA-users
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to set up a small office of software developers with FreeIPA. My 
> ipa-server-install fails with "DNS zone example.com. already exists in DNS 
> and is handled by servers foo1.myisp.net...".
>
> We do have basic hosted dns for our few public facing servers but I want to 
> run an internal DNS on the LAN (and on the OpenVPN) to do name resolution.  
> We don't currently have any AD or Kerberos, this is basically a new company 
> with just a few people and a few workstations and will probably never grow 
> very large without massive infrastructure changes that would be way out of 
> scope for what I am trying to do.
>
> I was going to set up the internal computers as 
> workstation1.internal.mycompany.com, workstation2.internal.mycompany.com, 
> etc. since my understanding is that I can't do it without a subdomain since 
> the primary domain DNS server already exists.

The understanding is right. Also having internal.mycompany.com for
internal stuff and mycompany.com for public-facing stuff should prove
less of a hassle to maintain in the long run.

> I am putting this on a new server with a fresh install of CentOS 8. The ipa 
> server is ipa.mycompany.com, or is it supposed to be 
> ipa.internal.mycompany.com?

I'd go for ipa0.internal.mycompany.com
Please set this as FQDN.

> I was trying to use all the defaults when calling ipa-server-install 
> --setup-dns, but I don't really understand where to tell it about the 
> subdomain.

--domain=domain_name
but you probably don't need to specify it if you use
ipa0.internal.mycompany.com as FQDN.

> None of the many tutorials I have read seem to deal with my use case even 
> though it seems like something lots of people would want to do.  Am I using 
> the right tool for this job?  Am I just not finding the right web page that 
> makes it easy?

"# ipa-server-install -h", "Basic options"
The above tool has a man page too.

> Can I run a small network with about 10 hosts and about 10 users on one 
> freeipa host?

Yes, if the host fulfills the minimum requirements, see:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/linux_domain_identity_authentication_and_policy_guide/installing-ipa#minimal-hardware-requirements

If you can spare the RAM, 3-4GB will help. Make sure to have swap
configured as well.

However having a single server is not resilient. Having a replica would help.

Best regards,
François

> I also have a separate box for pfsense/openvpn and maybe I could run a 
> failover dns server on that, but I can't even get the main server running.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help with this.
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