Issue #3762 has been updated by Luke Kanies.

Status changed from Investigating to Needs design decision

It seems to me that this is basically just a duplicate of #3926.  Is it 
reasonable to close this in favor of that more general ticket?

And either way, should we be supporting a 'uniqueid' fact, or focus on a 'uuid' 
fact?
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Bug #3762: uniqueid is not unique on Debian
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3762

Author: Daniel Pope
Status: Needs design decision
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: 
Category: library
Target version: 
Keywords: 
Branch: 


Debian-based systems in particular (possibly others) ship with an /etc/hosts 
file that starts

 127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 hostname.domain.tld hostname

This is used to specify the FQDN of the machine independently of its physical 
IP address, and I believe their expectation is that you are not required to 
change this. However, this breaks the hostid command that is used to provide 
the uniqueid fact.

I would expect the uniqueid fact to be unique on out-of-the-box Debian machines 
- perhaps munging Facter.ipaddress in the same way as the hostid command would.

I also tested CentOS, but this does not use the same "hack", and it looks like 
you are expected to reconfigure /etc/hosts so that applications can find the 
hostname and FQDN.


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