Re: cfagent - unknown host

[Mark . Burgess]

Maybe a timeout?
I don't know what else to suggest. There cannot be anything
wrong with the code since it seems to work for thousands of
other users :( I would still guess something with the cnfiguration
of DNS or name lookup.

M

On 14 Oct, Jeremy Dreese wrote:
> 
> 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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