On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 20:12 -0400, bwellsnc wrote: > Hello. I am working on implementing several new things at my > company, IPA, a new DHCP server, and a new named server. The problem > is that I am running an infrastructure with Windows, Linux, and Mac. > This means that DNS entries cannot be kept up to date using the > windows/mac side because they are not part of IPA. The current > DHCP/Named instance I am replacing does named updates from DHCP. I am > wondering, can the named instance used by IPA be updated using DHCP. > The ideal situation would be for DHCP to be allowed to automatically > make additions to IPA's DNS server, even if there is no entry for that > host. Can something like this be implemented with ipa: > > > http://edmann.com/Computers-Technology/2008/01/08/ISC-DHCP-and-Ldap-Backend > The LDAP backend for ISC DHCP is used to store dhcp data, but wouldn't be very useful for your purpose.
If you can run a script from the DHCP server when a machine registers, then what you can do is to create a user/service allowed to modify DNS entries (aadding a named ACI to the relative zone) and then simply use the script to call 'nsupdate' and issue GSS-TSIG signed dns update requests. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
