I updated the reolve.conf of the client machine to point to the server and ran:

[root@vm-060 ~]# ipa-client-install --domain idm.lab.bos.redhat.com -p admin -w freeipa4all
Discovery was successful!
Realm: IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
DNS Domain: idm.lab.bos.redhat.com
IPA Server: vm-051.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com
BaseDN: dc=idm,dc=lab,dc=bos,dc=redhat,dc=com

Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]: yes

Enrolled in IPA realm IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
Created /etc/ipa/default.conf
Configured /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
Configured /etc/krb5.conf for IPA realm IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
certmonger request for host certificate failed
Warning: Hostname (vm-060.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com) not found in DNS
Failed to obtain host TGT.
Failed to update DNS A record. (Command 'x' returned non-zero exit status 1)
SSSD enabled
Kerberos 5 enabled
NTP enabled
Client configuration complete.

Is this a sign of a cert server issue? THis is the first time running with dogtag.

Here's the last couple of lines from the ipa-server-log/ They look fine to me.

[Thu Feb 24 20:41:06 2011] [error] ipa: INFO: admin@IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM: host_find(u, all=True): SUCCESS
[Thu Feb 24 20:41:14 2011] [error] ipa: INFO: admin@IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM: batch(({u'params': [[u'vm-060.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com'], {}], u'method': u'host_del'},)): SUCCESS
[Thu Feb 24 20:41:15 2011] [error] ipa: INFO: admin@IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM: host_find(u, all=True): SUCCESS
[Thu Feb 24 20:46:04 2011] [error] ipa: INFO: admin@IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM: join(u'vm-060.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com', nshardwareplatform=u'x86_64', nsosversion=u'2.6.32-114.0.1.el6.x86_64'): SUCCESS

This machine had client installed before, but I've since uninstalled and reinstalled both the server and client, and rebooted the client as well.

There is no file /etc/ipa/.dns_update.txt