FreeIPA allows disabling DNS Autodiscovery by explicitly listing the host names of FreeIPA servers. However, it isn't clear if the order of host names matters. For example:
ipa-client-install --server firsthostname.example.com --server secondhostname.example.com
Is the first host name I list the one that will always be consulted first? Or does SSSD attempt to use whichever one responds to a ping faster? I have not configured any DNS SRV records.
Ryan Slominski via FreeIPA-users wrote:
FreeIPA allows disabling DNS Autodiscovery by explicitly listing the host names of FreeIPA servers. However, it isn't clear if the order of host names matters. For example:
ipa-client-install --server firsthostname.example.com --server secondhostname.example.com
Is the first host name I list the one that will always be consulted first? Or does SSSD attempt to use whichever one responds to a ping faster? I have not configured any DNS SRV records.
It should use the server in the order passed in. The first one will go into /etc/ipa/default.conf as the default master.
SSSD will use the servers in order in sssd.conf.
sssd.conf:
ipa_server = server1,server2,...,servern
IIRC each server will get its own set of entries in krb5.conf as well.
rob
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