On Feb 22, 12:37 pm, deet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you add the FQDN of the server, the server's name, or both to the > > hosts file on the client? > > Our hosts only have a "node" name as we don't have nis/ldap/dns for > network name resolution. > > In this case the puppet master's hostname is "dev-puppet" and I did > not include that in the clients hostfile. The entry I used is like > this > > (clients hosts file) > X.X.X.X puppet > > And on the puppetmaster server I used the following notation for the > client's hosts entry. The real name of the client in this example is > "dev-sandbox" which is what I put in the puppetmasters hosts file. > > (puppetmaster hosts file) > X.X.X.X dev-sandbox > > Once the cert exchange is complete I can remove that hosts entry for > the client. > > Does that help? >
That's very helpful. I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out what's wrong. Our clients are behind a NATed VPN that the server can't see through. (Long story. Don't ask.) This should be enough information to get a good bug report, and set up a temporary fix. -Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en.
