Hello FreeIPA-users. The Subject line is the core of my question here; I'll provide a bit more detail below.
I work for what is (effectively) a startup, non-profit internet provider. I have an extensive Windows background, and "know enough to be dangerous" with Linux & BSD (have been tinkering with GNU/Linux on and off since Slackware 3.0 or 3.1). I'm very familiar with Windows Active Directory, but the org does not have any AD infrastructure right now (and being nonprofit, are trying to avoid spending money for MS, especially when all of the other VMs will be Linux or BSD anyway). Given the nonprofit nature, I discovered FreeIPA when looking for a free centralized directory system. The goal is to consolidate all credentials for *other* Linux VMs (customer-facing DNS, CRM web server, SNMP/network graphing servers, etc) as well as provide a back-end for RADIUS for management of network equipment (switches, routers, P2P wireless, etc). Simplifying DNS management and replication is also appealing, I'd rather administrate one system than two or three. In case it changes your opinion of the plan at all - all of the network equipment and VMs will be on *private* (10.x) IPv4 space and behind one or more firewalls, at least initially. We do want to add public IPv6, but do not have that yet. We only have a small allocation (/26) of public v4 from our upstream that will be NATed through a firewall and not directly on any devices. The traffic to FreeIPA is going to be internal-only, I do not plan on exposing FreeIPA's DNS "to the world" at all. Even customer-facing internal DNS will likely be through separate caching forwarders pointing back to FreeIPA. I have a completely unused, publicly registered domain (let's just call it "example.net" for this thread) available to dedicate to this system. We also own "example.org" and are using that for our public web presence, and I intend to keep that entirely standalone. Given that I have no current "interoperability" concerns, is there anything "wrong" with putting FreeIPA directly at the root of example.net? Or would it be more wise, from an interop, security, or manageability standpoint (i.e. a "best practice"), to root FreeIPA at something like auth.example.net or ipa.example.net and then have a separate set of nameservers handling the base domain? If I put FreeIPA's root (and Kerberos realm) in a subdomain, is it possible to *also* have it manage the parent domain's DNS entries? I've read through the Quick Start Guide and Deployment Recommendations (https://www.freeipa.org/page/Deployment_Recommendations), which is part of how I've come to the decisions I've made thus far. I couldn't really find guidance one way or the other on whether FreeIPA "should" be in a subdomain or not, hence this posting. I would appreciate any insight the community can provide! _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected]
