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vpetersson
Asked: 2013-12-05 11:23:58 +0800 CST

Puppet agent not following `server` setting

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I have a very strange issue with Puppet 2.7.18 (on a Raspberry Pi) that started all of the sudden. In simple terms, the agent only partially follows the 'server' directive in puppet.conf.

The following works:

$ sudo puppet agent -t --server my.puppet.server

but, if i instead set it in puppet.conf, it doesn't seem to follow it. 

$ grep server /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
server=my.puppet.server

I even confirmed it with the genconfig variable, which appears to agree with the fact that it is properly configured:

$ sudo puppet agent --configprint server
my.puppet.server

The strange part is that when I'm running it without the explicit server argument, I get the following error repeated:

$ sudo puppet agent -t
[...]
err: /Stage[main]/MyModule::Puppet/File[some_file.sh]: Could not evaluate: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet:///modules/MyModule/some_file.sh: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known at /etc/puppet/modules/MyModule/manifests/another_file.pp:31
[...]
err: Could not send report: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

Can anyone offer any kind of insight or explanation to why such behavior would happen?

linux

1 Answers

  1. Most likely caused by a temporary DNS issue.

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