some sort of host authentication problem.

[Kurt Lieber]

I am unable to successfuly copy files from my master host to a slave
server.  After a fair amount of troubleshooting, I tracked it down to this
line:

        # master cfengine config files are stored here
                /var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs/       *.domain.com

If I change it to:

        # master cfengine config files are stored here
                /var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs/       *
                
Then it works fine which tells me that it's probably a problem with the
reverse lookup.  Here is the relevant section of my cfservd.conf file:

control:

    domain = ( domain.com )
    AllowUsers = ( root )
    AllowConnectionsFrom = ( 192.168.1 )
    TrustKeysFrom   = ( 192.168.1.0/24 )
    SkipVerify = ( 192.168.1 )


And the relevant section from cfservd -d2:

AccessControl(/var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs)
AccessControl(/var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs,192.168.1.144) encrypt request=1
Found a match for in access list 
(/var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs,/var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs)
FuzzyItemIn(192.168.1.144)
IsWildItem(192.168.1.144,*.domain.com)
IsWildItem(192.168.1.144,*.domain.com)
FuzzyItemIn(192.168.1.144)
cfservd: Host 192.168.1.144 denied access to /var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs


Now, reverse lookups don't work on my network -- so 192.168.1.144 is never
going to correctly resolve to host.domain.com.  Is there any other way to
tell cfservd that 192.168.1.144 really is host.domain.com?  Or am I stuck
using "*" for all my file controls in cfservd.conf?

Thanks.

--kurt