RE: Unable to lookup hostname or cfengine service

[Tim Nelson]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Atom Powers wrote:

> I've just started using cfengine and I'm having a similar problem on some of
> my systems. But I know the hostname and cfengine service are working. It can
> copy the files into /var/cfengine/inputs (from update.conf), but not the copy
> commands in my cf.main. This same script works on some systems, but seems not
> to work on the ones that are dual-homed. Cfengine v.2.1.10, FreeBSD 5.3
> (server and clients) and FreeBSD 4.10 (clients).
>
> > sudo cfagent -v
> <snip>
> Connect to vesta0.pyramidbrew.com = 192.168.0.22 on port cfengine
> cfengine:titan0: Unable to lookup hostname or cfengine service: No address
> associated with hostname
> cfengine:titan0: Couldn't open a socket
> cfengine:titan0: Unable to establish connection with vesta0.pyramidbrew.com
> (failover)
> <snip>
>
> > host vesta0.pyramidbrew.com
> vesta0.pyramidbrew.com has address 192.168.0.22
>
> > host 192.168.0.22
> 22.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer vesta0.pyramidbrew.com.

1.      Am I right in assuming that these host commands were run on titan0?
2.      Have you checked the DNS settings for titan0

> > grep cfengine /etc/services
> cfengine        5308/tcp
> cfengine        5308/udp
>
> [from vesta0]
> > netstat -a | grep cfengine
> tcp4       0      0  *.cfengine             *.*                    LISTEN
>
>
>
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> Atom Powers
> Systems Administrator
> Pyramid Breweries Inc.
> 206.682.8322 x251
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+apowers=pyramidbrew.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+apowers=pyramidbrew.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of
> Chris Kacoroski
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:53 AM
> To: Stuart_Weaver@ElementK.com
> Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Unable to lookup hostname or cfengine service
>
> Stuart,
>
> Be sure you have forward and reverse lookups working for the client and
> server from both the client and server.  If this is working, run it with the
> -d1 switch to get more detailed debugging information.,
>
> cheers,
>
> ski
>
> Stuart_Weaver@ElementK.com wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am running into a rather odd error when executing cfrun that seems
> > to indicate a hostname lookup failure or an entry missing from
> /etc/services.
> > The hostname is resolvable via dns and the resolver order on the
> > machines are ordered: hosts, dns. Other programs that use the resolver
> > libraries are able to resolve the name with no problems(short name or
> FQDN).
> > An entry for cfengine is in /etc/service associated with port 5308 tcp
> > and udp.
> > This error only seems to occurs when using cfrun; it does not occur if
> > cfagent or cfexed is used.  Regularly schedule runs also do not
> > produce the problem.
> > The problem is occurring on Linux and Solaris alike.
> > I am running version 2.1.7p1 of cfengine on all platforms.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thank You.
> >
> > Following are snips from the logs...(logs are from client machines)
> >
> > Linux RedHat ES3.0 /var/log/message
> > Jan 11 10:40:08 zoe cfservd[812]:  Unable to lookup hostname (nosy.()
> > or cfengine service: Name or service not known
> >
> > Solaris 9 /var/adm/message
> > Jan 11 15:39:58 mccoy cfservd[363]: [ID 823470 daemon.error]  Unable
> > to lookup hostname (nosy.() or cfengine service: host/servname not
> > known
> >
> >
> >
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