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On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 6:31 PM Buckley Ross <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Flo,
>
> I think you misread my question.
>

Indeed. I interpreted "I found that on DNS records were provisioned..." as
"I found that on <the> DNS <server>, records were provisioned" instead of
"I found that *no* DNS records were provisioned". Sorry about that...


I am not running `ipa host-add`. I am running `ipa host-add-principal`. I
> would expect that if I am adding a new principal to a host, that
> principal's DNS name would be added with either a CNAME or an A record,
> pointing back to the original host. Is there a reason that this does not
> happen? I cannot understand the utility of being able to add a new
> principal to a host if that principal is not routable via DNS.
>

In your case you expect myhost and myalias to resolve to the same IP
address, but that's not the general use case. Consider for instance a host
with 2 different IP addresses, myhost resolving to the 1st one and myalias
to the 2nd one. Adding the principal alias is de-coupled from the DNS
records.

Hope this clarifies,
flo


> Thanks,
> Buckley Ross
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 7:17 AM Florence Renaud <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I was not able to reproduce this issue:
>>
>> # ipa host-add myhost.ipa.test --ip-address $IP
>> # ipa dnsrecord-find ipa.test
>> >> shows myhost.ipa.test has been added
>>
>> # ipa host-add-principal myhost host/myalias.ipa.test
>> # ipa dnsrecord-find ipa.test
>> >> no new record added
>>
>> DNS records are added when the command "ipa host-add --ip-address" is
>> used, when a host is joined with ipa-client-install, or when "ipa
>> dnsrecord-add" is called. You can check in /var/log/httpd/error_log if you
>> find trace of such a command.
>>
>> flo
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:46 PM Buckley Ross via FreeIPA-users <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to provision an HTTP service principal for a containerized
>>> service. The host on which the container is running also has a kerberized
>>> HTTP service running on it with a separate service principal (both services
>>> are highly critical, but for different systems, and thus should probably
>>> have separate keytabs).
>>>
>>> Since both services share an IP address (but are serving HTTP on
>>> different ports), this seemed like a perfect application of kerberos host
>>> aliases. However, when I provisioned a host alias with `ipa
>>> host-add-principal myHost host/myAlias.domain.com`, I found that on DNS
>>> records were provisioned for `myAlias.domain.com`, thus making the
>>> alias completely useless for resolving to the container. Is this a bug in
>>> the host-alias system, or am I missing something?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Buckley Ross
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