cfengine and DNS domains

[Akop Pogosian]

Does cfengine work across different DNS domains? I just run into a
strange problem that suggests not. Some of our hosts are in the
berkeley.edu domain while others are part of subdomain.berkeley.edu.
Since we eventually want to move all of our hosts into
subdomain.berkeley.edu we're using subdomain.berkeley.edu as the
cfengine domain. Since I have been testing cfengine setup only with
the hosts in the subdomain.berkeley.edu domain everything was working
fine but I just run into problems with machines in the berkeley.edu
domain. For example, we have somehost.berkeley.edu that's supposed to
be managed with the same cfengine installation used in
subdomain.berkeley.edu domain. When I attempt to run cfagent on that
machine, it doesn't work and I see cfservd messages in the logs on the
server that look like this:

"DNS lookup of somehost.subdomain.berkeley.edu failed"
"Failed on DNS reverse lookup of somehost.somedomain.berkeley.edu"
"Failed on DNS reverse lookup of somehost.somedomain.berkeley.edu"
"Client sent: xxx.xx.xxx.xxx somehost.somedomain.berkeley.edu root 0"
etc.


Why is cfservd attempting to lookup somehost.subdomain.berkeley.edu
when the machines host name is really somehost.berkeley.edu?


-akop