Jira (FACT-179) fqdn Fact returns nil when hostname or domain are nil

[Eric Shamow (JIRA)]

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Eric Shamow commented on an issue   Re: fqdn Fact returns nil when hostname or domain are nil To the point in the original Redmine ticket about determining correct behavior: This is the fact's current code - {{Facter.add(:fqdn) do setcode do host = Facter.value(:hostname) domain = Facter.value(:domain) if host and domain [host, domain].join(".") else nil end end end}} That's not how name resolution works on most systems. Facter should reflect the principle of least surprise - it should return what the system believes fqdn to be. On *nix boxes, for the most part, hostname -f will return shortname in the absence of a domain. But this should be implemented as something that's closer to what the actual systems do. There are very few systems on which full name will return nil when asked for fully-qualified name. Add Comment   Facter / FACT-179 fqdn Fact returns nil when hostname or domain are nil In the case where domain is nil the fqdn is then nil. This causes a number of modules that use fqdn to break. When fqdn is nil I also cannot run puppet agent -t as I get the following error {noformat} Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Must provide non empty value. on node master Warning: Not using cache ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.