Hi Peter,

Thank you so much!  
Could you please elaborate on how to configure the FreeIPA DNS server to 
forward only non-local-domain queries?

In the DNS Global Configuration there is the Forward policy 
Forward first
Forward only
Forwarding disabled

Which one should be used to do what you say below?
Do I need to set a Global forwarder?

Best,
Dave


> On Dec 26, 2021, at 10:00 PM, Peter Larsen via FreeIPA-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2021-12-26 at 14:16 -0500, Dave Mintz via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have been trying to set up FreeIPA on an internal CentOS 8 server. 
>> I was successful in getting it running, I set up DNS for internal
>> queries.  It worked.  However, when I tried to set up SSL certs I ran
>> into issue.
>> 
>> My question is this:  
>> I own a legitimate domain.
>> It is not “hosted”.
>> I have no intention of exposing any of my internal servers to the
>> Internet.
>> How do I go about configuring the DNS at my registrar so that when I
>> configure my internal servers, including FreeIPA, DNS, SSL, email,
>> etc., any requests that go out to the Internet will resolve
>> correctly?
>> 
>> Any help or pointers to documentation would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I have freeIPA with DNS over several replication instances running. The
> domains are like yours mostly internal and not to resolve externally.
> Without a lot of boring details, you do not need to register your TLD
> if you just use the domain internally. As long as the resolver your
> internal hosts point to is your authoritative DNS server that FreeIPA
> manages, the clients will get responses as they need.
> 
> This requires your server not to just blindly forward all DNS
> externally. I have forward turned off on my domains. This means when a
> client requests a public DNS address, the bind server managed by
> FreeIPA will do a NS lookup to see where the request needs to be sent.
> It's not 1.1.1.1 or similar services doing that. Works great for a
> small network where your domain is 100% internal.
> 
> You can have an external NS too and they can provide very different
> answers. Perhaps you just want MX to resolve externally but an ocean of
> internal addresses should not. If someone outside your network tries to
> resolve an address, they will hit the external resolver (not managed by
> FreeIPA!) and only resolve what it knows about.
> 
> 
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