Hi All,

We are trying to get to the bottom of an issue with a (single instance) IPA 
server in a trust relationship with AD.  IPA will (intermittently) fail to 
resolve all of a users’ groups.

The IPA domain is ‘unix.domain.com<http://unix.domain.com>’ and the AD domain 
is ‘domain.com<http://domain.com>’.

Having been through the logs for clues as to why this is happening, one error 
that stands out is this one:

(Sun Aug  2 03:20:03 2020) [sssd[be[unix.domain.com<http://unix.domain.com>]]] 
[be_mark_subdom_offline] (0x1000): Marking subdomain 
domain.com<http://domain.com> as inactive

This error is present in the log on the IPA server many, many thousands of 
times.

The output of ‘sssctl domain-status domain.com<http://domain.com>’ on the IPA 
server also seems to see AD as being offline:

root@vmpr-linuxidm:~#
==> sssctl domain-status domain.com<http://domain.com>
Online status: Offline

Active servers:
AD Global Catalog: papr-dc1.domain.com<http://papr-dc1.domain.com>
AD Domain Controller: papr-dc1.domain.com<http://papr-dc1.domain.com>
IPA: vmpr-linuxidm.unix.domain.com<http://vmpr-linuxidm.unix.domain.com>

Discovered AD Global Catalog servers:
- vmpr-fac-dc2.facility.domain.com<http://vmpr-fac-dc2.facility.domain.com>
- papr-dc1.domain.com<http://papr-dc1.domain.com>
- papr-dc3.domain.com<http://papr-dc3.domain.com>
- vmpr-fac-dc1.facility.domain.com<http://vmpr-fac-dc1.facility.domain.com>
- papr-dc2.domain.com<http://papr-dc2.domain.com>
- azspr-dc1.domain.com<http://azspr-dc1.domain.com>
- stpr-dc1.domain.com<http://stpr-dc1.domain.com>
- stpr-dc2.domain.com<http://stpr-dc2.domain.com>
- papr-dc4.domain.com<http://papr-dc4.domain.com>

Discovered AD Domain Controller servers:
- papr-dc1.domain.com<http://papr-dc1.domain.com>
- papr-dc2.domain.com<http://papr-dc2.domain.com>
- papr-dc3.domain.com<http://papr-dc3.domain.com>
- papr-dc4.domain.com<http://papr-dc4.domain.com>
- azspr-dc1.domain.com<http://azspr-dc1.domain.com>
- stpr-dc2.domain.com<http://stpr-dc2.domain.com>
- stpr-dc1.domain.com<http://stpr-dc1.domain.com>

Discovered IPA servers:
- vmpr-linuxidm.unix.domain.com<http://vmpr-linuxidm.unix.domain.com>

I don’t know whether this error is related to the symptom we’re seeing with the 
groups, but it seems like an obvious problem that we should endeavour to fix as 
a first step.

If AD were truly ‘offline’, then I’d expect NO resolution of trust users/groups 
to occur at all, but that’s not the case.

Can anyone provide some pointers to help debug why IPA would think the AD 
domain is offline?

Regards,

Robert.
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