Greetings,

I have a set-up that has many Freeipa servers throughout various regions, acting as DNS servers throughout these regions.

To set the stage, I, along with my colleagues, are competent in FreeIPA administration, but we're not ldap experts. We've had a couple scenarios wherein changes to our IPA environment (adding/removing a host, additions of zones, etc) have caused momentary DNS outages. 

In addition, we are concerned about LDAP issues that could cause named to not function - we've already gone through an isolated incident where slapd took a significant amount of time to start, during which that host was running named, but was not serving any addresses.

For these and many more reasons we'd feel more comfortable running named from flat files that pull DNS updates from FreeIPA.

My question to the group is whether there will be any impacts to the FreeIPA system if we convert named to use files rather than bind as a backend. Ideally, we'd like to avoid creating new machines to function as DNS servers and just convert the existing FreeIPA servers to use files for named.

Any comments or questions on the above approach would be welcome - thanks for your time.

Best,
Jon