6.3. Adding a global forwarder in the CLI

Prerequisites

• You are logged in as IdM administrator.
• You know the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the DNS server to forward queries to.

Procedure

• Use the ipa dnsconfig-mod command to add a new global forwarder. Specify the IP address of the DNS forwarder with the --forwarder option.

  [user@server ~]$ ipa dnsconfig-mod --forwarder=10.10.0.1
  Server will check DNS forwarder(s).
  This may take some time, please wait ...
    Global forwarders: 10.10.0.1
    IPA DNS servers: server.example.com

Verification

• Use the dnsconfig-show command to display global forwarders.

  [user@server ~]$ ipa dnsconfig-show
    Global forwarders: 10.10.0.1
    IPA DNS servers: server.example.com