Thanks again for the reply :)
Short update from my side: turns out it was indeed my upgrade path that was 
causing issues. I just managed to join my 4.9 client to a 4.10 server without 
issues. Rather than restoring a 4.9 backup to a 4.10 server (which is 
unsupported, as it turns out), I restored the backup to a clean server with the 
exact same version, and then upgraded the OS (rocky) from 8 to 9, which came 
with a ipa-server upgrade to 4.10. My next move will be to see if I can 
replicate this to a clean Rocky 9. 
I didn't chase down what the actual error was, since I was doing strange things 
anway :)

Peter

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> From: Rob Crittenden <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, 15 March 2024 18:57
> To: FreeIPA users list
> Cc: Kroon PC, Peter
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: Cannot enroll a 4.9 client to 4.10 server 
> fails with PrincipalName not found

> Kroon PC, Peter via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>> Thanks for the super fast reply! I'll do my best to reply in-line, but I'm 
>> bound to outlook, which doesn't like it too much.
>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on updating my freeipa server from rocky 8 to 9. I'm playing 
>>>> around with a virtual machines as playground server and client, since I'd 
>>>> rather not break my everything right away. As part of this, I first 
>>>> installed ipa-server version 4.10.2-8.el9_3 on the server. Then I did an 
>>>> ipa-restore with a backup from my production ipa server (rocky 8, 
>>>> 4.9.12-11.module+el8.9.0+1652+4ee71f6a), followed by an 
>>>> ipa-server-upgrade. All is well so far (I think).
>>
>>> I don't know how you achieved this. ipa-restore attempts to prevent
>>> using restore as a backdoor upgrade mechanism.
>>
>> It didn't complain /too/ much honestly. It saw the version mismatch between 
>> the backup and the installed server, asked for a "yes", and then happily 
>> went on its way. Is there a better way to achieve what I want/need?

> Create a replica and disconnect it from the topology to have a sandbox.

>>>> The client is running Debian bookworm with backports, where the latest 
>>>> ipa-client version is 4.9.11-1. Then, I went with the usual 
>>>> ipa-client-install --no-ntp, which fails with "Joining realm failed: 
>>>> Failed to parse result: PrincipalName not found." after retrieving the CA 
>>>> cert.
>>>> The logs don't tell me much more, but the --debug flag does. It negotiates 
>>>> a JSON-RPC response, in which it says '{... "principal": 
>>>> "[email protected]", ...}'. I note that principal != PrincipalName. Also 
>>>> note, that on the server, the host /is/ added.
>>>>
>>>> So I guess my question is: how much version skew between server and client 
>>>> is supported?
>>
>>> Plenty. There isn't much to client enrollment and the API hasn't changed
>>> significantly in a long time.
>>
>> Ok. Is there any other place I can look for what's going wrong?
> The server httpd error log should have something about the request as
> well as the client install log.

> To get more details on the server side you can create
> /etc/ipa/server.conf with the contents:

> [global]
> debug = True

> Then restart httpd. Warning, it can be very verbose so I wouldn't leave
> it like that for long in production.

> rob

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