Scott Dungan via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> When attempting to setup a domain client to query the domain for automounts, 
> we see the following:
> 
> ipa-client-automount --location=default
> Searching for IPA server...
> Autodiscovery was successful but didn't return a server
> 
> If we specify a server it works:
> 
> ipa-client-automount --location=default --server idm1.domain.com
> IPA server: idm1.domain.com
> Location: default
> Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]:
> 
> This implies that the client will only query this server for automount 
> entries, rather than all IPA replicas, so therefore it is not a redundant 
> configuration. My question is how to populate DNS entries so that the command 
> can find the server(s) automatically. We are using an external DNS service, 
> so this may explain why the command is unable to find automount servers? 

There is a command-line tool to help with this:

$ ipa dns-update-system-records --dry-run

Will show you the records it expects for discovery. You can also use the
--out option to create an nsupdate-compatible file to create the entries.

rob
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