Ohad, the below algorithm solves my issues. I know it is what your change suggested, but I just wanted to thoroughly vet the issue :)
So you get a +1 from me! cheers, /Martin On Jan 28, 3:35 pm, Ohad Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > From your reply I'm not really sure anything needs to be changed, so I'll > try to summarise how the domain/fqdn and hostname facts are determined. > > 1st step, fetch value for hostname, this is done by calling Socket > gethostbyname method (previously was simply the output of `hostname`). > > if hostname is a fqdn, fill up the fqdn fact, domain and name accordingly. > > if hostname is short, for the domain fact - execute and use the first answer > from: > dnsdomainname > domain statement in resolv.conf > search statement in resolv.conf > > then use name + domain facts to build up the fqdn. > > I don't think we need to query dns service to get our own dns entry, this > means our machine setup is broken to begin with. > > Ohad > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:40 PM, martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 10:35 am, Ohad Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'd like to see a solution that takes in to account all different > > > > configs: > > > > - nodename set to hostname > > > > > - pick up domain from DNS > > > > do you really want to query dns to find the the host domain name? > > > I don't but I've seen some people using: > > /etc/nodename: foo > > /etc/hosts: 72.5.124.61 foo > > /etc/resolv.conf: domain bar.com > > > so the only way to get the domain is to do a DNS lookup. > > > > - pick up domain from LDAP > > > - pick up domain from NIS > > > > I would think that would be a completely different fact - what I wanted > > to > > > do in this patch is to say - domainname is DNS, if you want nis or ldap, > > use > > > another fact. > > > Yes, they should probably end up in ldapdomain & nisdomain. > > > > > - nodename set to hostname and fqdn > > > > nodename as /etc/nodename? isnt it part of the system configuration > > (rather > > > then querying it?) > > > The output of (hostname) or the ruby Socket call, return the hostname or > > > fqdn (if its defined as fqdn). > > > Yes, but we're using "uname -n"/"hostname" to determine it. > > > > what I've done is that if the hostname is fqdn, then the hostname is the > > > shortname, and that would also set the fqdn fact - before it used to > > create > > > the fqdn fact from hostname + domain. > > > We usually set: > > /etc/nodename: foo > > /etc/hosts: 72.5.124.61 foo foo.bar.com > > > cheers, > > /Martin > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
