Unable to add DKIM record to FreeIPA DNS server

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Attempting to add DKIM record to IdM DNS server as TXT resource record
  • Record is shown in WebUI and at CLI via ipa dnsrecord-show
  • However, the DNS record does not exist when querying, with NXDOMAIN returned by dig

  • syntax error is found in /var/named/data/named.run

    15-Dec-2020 18:41:23.714 failed to parse RR entry: resource record DN 'idnsname=example.com._domainkey,idnsname=idm.example.com.,cn=dns,dc=idm,dc=example,dc=com': data 'v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0 <...> ywkeRcMI/m2bQIDAQAB': syntax error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) / FreeIPA
    • ipa-server
    • ipa-server-dns
    • bind-pkcs11 / named-pkcs11.service

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