Re-initialising IPA replica failing with "ipa: ERROR: DNS query for ipa-master.example.com. A failed: The DNS operation timed out after 24.0123 seconds"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Re-initialising IPA replica from IPA master is failing with DNS error:
# ipa-replica-manage re-initialize --from ipa-master.example.com
ipa: ERROR: DNS query for ipa-master.example.com. A failed: The DNS operation timed out after 24.0123 seconds
Re-run /usr/sbin/ipa-replica-manage with --verbose option to get more information
Unexpected error: The DNS operation timed out after 24.0123 seconds

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Identity Management in RHEL (IPA)
  • replication

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