On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 05:13:35PM +0200, Winfried de Heiden wrote: > Hi all, > > The sssd-ipa man page will tell: > > ipa_enable_dns_sites (boolean) > Enables DNS sites - location based service discovery. > > If true and service discovery (see Service Discovery paragraph at > the bottom of the man page) is enabled, then the SSSD will first attempt > location based discovery using a query that contains > "_location.hostname.example.com" and then fall back to traditional SRV > discovery. If the > location based discovery succeeds, the IPA servers located with the > location based discovery are treated as primary servers and the IPA servers > located using the traditional SRV discovery are used as back up > servers > > After enabling it in a EL 6.8 IPA client (together with some debugging) this > will show up in the sssd logging: > > (Mon May 30 16:51:08 2016) [sssd[be[blabla.bla]]] > [resolv_discover_srv_next_domain] (0x0400): SRV resolution of service > 'ldap'. Will use DNS discovery domain '_location.ipa-client-6.blabla.bla' > (Mon May 30 16:51:08 2016) [sssd[be[blabla.bla]]] [resolv_getsrv_send] > (0x0100): Trying to resolve SRV record of > '_ldap._tcp._location.ipa-client-6.blabla.bla' > > Since this option is mentioned in the sssd-ipa man page, it sugests I could > implement this location based service discovery. > > But how? Any documentation on this? How to implement on the server? How to > implement a location on the client (while running ipa-client-install) > > Hope someone can help, it would be nice a client will choose the correct > server > based on it's location...
In this case SSSD was a bit faster then the server side. Please monitor https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2008 for the progress. There is a link to a design page with more details as well. HTH bye, Sumit P.S. I changed the mailing-list address to @redhat.com. > > > Winny > > > -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project