Re: cfagent - unknown host

[Mark . Burgess]

This might be caused by a partial or incorrect registration
in DNS, an Ipv6 compatible lookup etc.

The only difference between now and then is that if your system
has they new BIND fnctions, it uses them. They are stricter than
the old - more sensitive to faulty reverse PTR records.

Make sure that DNS is all okay. Shouldn't be any problems.

M

On 13 Oct, Jeremy Dreese wrote:
> 
> I'm getting the following message when running cfengine 2.1.0b5 on a
> RedHat 9 machine (works fine on RedHat 7.3):
> 
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>  * (Changing context state to: update) *
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>  
> Looking for an input file /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf
> cf:cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf:56: DNS lookup failure.
> Unknown host
> Culprit: servername.eg.bucknell.edu
> Make sure that fully qualified names can be looked up at your site!
> i.e. www.gnu.org, not just www. If you use NIS or /etc/hosts
> make sure that the full form is registered too as an alias!
> gethostbyname: : Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> 
> (NOTE: I changed the "Culprit" hostname; it does resolve properly.)
> 
> This worked fine (if I remember correctly) when we were running version
> 2.0.4 (had to upgrade because of pre 2.0.8 security bugs in cfservd and
> had to upgrade to beta version because of previous problem:
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-cfengine/2003-09/msg00162.html). 
> I've tried adding the server information to the /etc/hosts file (even
> though that shouldn't be necessary) but it didn't help.
> 
> Let me know if there's more/better information I can provide.  Thanks in
> advance!
> 



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