... perhaps configure an AD site specifically for the DMZ contsining the
reachable DCs and reference it in the SSSD config for those hosts ?


-- lawrence

On Mon, May 11, 2020, 10:20 AM Spike White <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
> sssd migration has been working very well for us -- except in the DMZs and
> heavily-restricted firewalled network segments.
>
> For those network segments, the AD site is the same as the equivalent
> corporate location. So the typical DNS SRV record lookup reports a wealth
> of AD controllers -- most of which are blocked.   (not LDAPS traffic
> allowed).
>
> A couple of AD DCs are in the DMZ, etc.
>
> The old commercial product appears to CLDAP ping every single AD
> controller it finds (via DNS SRV lookup).  And when one responds, it
> queries that DC to get site, preferred DCs, etc.  So the commercial product
> work, even in the face of most AD DCs blocked.
>
> adcli join and sssd appears to CLDAP ping only 4-5 AD DCs.  If they don't
> get a response back, you get an error.  If it's lucky enough to CLDAP ping
> an unblocked AD DC -- life is good, otherwise not so much.
>
> Is there an option in adcli join and the sssd startup to CLDAP ping all
> DCs?    Like the commercial product's behaviour?
>
> Obviously, I could hard-code the KDCs in /etc/krb5.conf.  But there's
> multiple downsides to that:
>    1. AD team switches out DCs w/o notice.
>    2. Hard to programmatically script out for new builds, as the list of
> DCs would vary according to each firewalled-off segment.
>
> Spike
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