Hey folks,

I just recently began planning the deployment of FreeIPA and have
successfully made several test setups.  Next step would be to integrate
this in our new datacenter; so we are starting there from scratch.

I understand HA on the server side. What boogles my head is HA on the
*client* side.

For example: Our pfsenses use a LDAP lookup against a single FQDN, and
the cert must be valid (against any provided CA). Exporting the CA from
freeIPA and importing that in pfsense is a cake.

But what do I point the clients towards? Let's say I have 4 FreeIPA servers:

- ipa01.auth.dc-01.company.com
- ipa02.auth.dc-01.company.com
- ipa03.auth.dc-01.company.com
- ipa04.auth.dc-01.company.com

Realm company.com, Kerberos COMPANY.COM. If I point the pfsense (I'll
stick to that as an example) against ipa01.auth.dc-01.company.com and
this server is offline, then no HA is given. DNS Delegation might yield
*any* of the four servers, including the one offline, so a 25% fault
chance in there.

Second question, same area: If I want my users to have one single url
for the FreeIPA webservice, like auth.company.com that follows the above
solution then the self-signed and generated certs do not have this as
altname.


So summed up:

 - How can I make (ldap) clients access the current online server(s)?
 - How can I provide access to the webinterace to the current online
server(s)?


(Or is this simply by the magic of dns zone delegation and pure faith
that always an online server will be hit?)

Thanks for any advice!
-Christian.

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