Re: cfagent - unknown host

[Jeremy Dreese]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't seem to find anything wrong with
the DNS entry.  The hostname is "rhino.eg.bucknell.edu"; please feel
free to prove me wrong.

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:41, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 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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