As Dave Nash mentioned, by default, Puppet tries to contact a host called "puppet" to receive it's configuration. It doesn't *necessarily* use DNS; a hosts file entry will work, as will other methods.
You can configure the option on the command line with the --server option, or you can use /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. --Paul On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:57 PM, dd-b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Puppet is kicking my ass. Maybe I'm having a stupid day. > > Anyway -- currently working through the "Simplest Puppet Install > Recipe" at > <http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ > SimplestPuppetInstallRecipe>. > > Both client and server systems are Centos. Puppet[master] installed > from RPMs, client has puppet-0.22.4-1.el5.rf (on Centos 5.2), server > has puppet-server-0.22.4-1.el4.rf (on Centos 4.6). > > Putting in the simple sudo.pp class, and the site.pp as given, and > starting the server (via the Redhat init script) went fine. > > Now, I start puppetd --verbose on the client. I'm supposed to see a > message about not receiving a certificate. I don't get one; I get: > > err: Could not find server puppet: getaddrinfo: Name or service not > known > err: Could not request certificate: Certificate retrieval failed: > Could not > find server puppet > > And I notice at this point that I wasn't directed to configure the > server name (or IP) anywhere. So I look at puppetd --help, and look > at the online docs, and can't find any hint about how you configure > where the server is. > > So what's up with that? > > It's probably relevant to mention that the client is behind NAT on a > private LAN (it's part of a cluster behind LVS in NAT mode). The > client system can connect out to other services on the same host as > the puppet server, but if it's depending on picking up server > broadcasts or anything, that's not going to fly. > > (Posted via email over an hour ago, an nothing has shown up either in > email or in groups, so I'm posting this via the web; sorry if it ends > up being a duplicate!) > > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
