so we can safely ignore the --server option for the ipa-client-install? but the --domain and --realm are mandatory?

Many thanks to Arpit.

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Arpit Tolani <arpittolani@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello

Try to run below commands on your IPA client & point resolv.conf to
IPA server & IPA client

# dig srv _ldap._tcp.dataservice.net
# dig srv _kerberos._tcp.dataservice.net
# dig srv _kpasswd._tcp.dataservice.net


If they return your IPA servers, It can automatically figure out your
IPA servers using DNS resolver


Regards
Arpit Tolani

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:17 PM, wenxing zheng <wenxing.zheng@gmail.com> wrote:
> I setup a IPA server: freeipa-server and a replica: freeipa-replica, both
> with embedded DNS. I have 2 server addresses: freeipa-server.dataservice.net
> and freeipa-replica.dataservice.net.
>
> When I am configuring the IPA client using the ipa-client-install, how to
> specify the "--server" option? or it can automatically figure out the server
> via the DNS resolver?
>
> Thanks, Wenxing
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Arpit Tolani <arpittolani@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> > Can you help to shed more lights on how to configure the SRV records for
>> > auto discovery?
>> >
>>
>> When ipa-server is setup with embedded DNS (using --setup-dns ) SRV
>> records are automatically added in IPA.
>>
>> If its external DNS server, You need to add records something like
>> this in your DNS server.
>>
>> _ldap._tcp.example.com. 86400   IN      SRV     0 100 389
>> ipaserver1.example.com.
>> _kerberos._tcp.example.com. 86400 IN    SRV     0 100 88
>> ipaserver1.example.com.
>> _kerberos._udp.example.com. 86400 IN    SRV     0 100 88
>> ipaserver1.example.com.
>> _kpasswd._tcp.example.com. 86400 IN     SRV     0 100 464
>> ipaserver1.example.com.
>> _kpasswd._udp.example.com. 86400 IN     SRV     0 100 464
>> ipaserver1.example.com.
>>
>> After this client will auto discover IPA server which is providing
>> LDAP & Kerberos information.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Arpit Tolani
>
>



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Thanks & Regards
Arpit Tolani