Jira (FACT-1926) ipaddress fact changed behaviour in FreeBSD, returns incorrect result with Puppet 5

[Gabriel Nagy (JIRA)]

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Gabriel Nagy commented on FACT-1926   Re: ipaddress fact changed behaviour in FreeBSD, returns incorrect result with Puppet 5 Hi, FreeBSD is community-maintained and as such we do not provide official support for it. However, I tried running this on a FreeBSD machine to reproduce your case. I added a dummy loopback interface and ran facter: root@freebsd:~ # ifconfig em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=81009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER> ether 00:0c:29:f1:92:d1 inet 172.16.230.139 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.230.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 groups: lo nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> lo1: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6> inet 5.5.5.5 netmask 0xffff0000 groups: lo nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>   root@freebsd:~ # facter ipaddress 172.16.230.139   root@freebsd:~ # uname -a FreeBSD freebsd 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE r341666 GENERIC amd64 root@freebsd:~ # facter facterversion 3.13.0 As shown above, ipaddress points to the em0 IP which is correct. I also tried to reproduce this on one of our supported OS-es (Ubuntu 18.04) with no avail. A truss run pointed to /var/db/dhclient.leases.em0 as the file facter parses to show the ipaddress fact. You can also run facter with the -l debug flag for debug level prints. Athanasios Douitsis, when you run ifconfig, what is the order of the networks? Does a loopback device come before the ethernet interface?  Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.309683.1558519845000.24905.1559140500455%40Atlassian.JIRA. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.