Ok, so here's an update ... I think we're getting closer to the problem. Since the VMs acquire a new IP each time I start them I made an entry in the /etc/hosts for the host
puppet.testing.com Here's what happened on the server and client windows when running both on the same box: --- server --- r...@rh1 steve]# puppetmasterd --verbose --no-daemonize info: Starting server for Puppet version 0.24.8 info: Listening on port 8140 notice: Starting Puppet server version 0.24.8 ^Cnotice: Caught INT; shutting down notice: Shutting down [r...@rh1 steve]# puppetmasterd --server puppet.testing.com --verbose --no-daemonize info: Starting server for Puppet version 0.24.8 info: Listening on port 8140 notice: Starting Puppet server version 0.24.8 --- client --- [r...@rh1 steve]# puppetd --server puppet.testing.com --verbose -- waitforcert 60 --test warning: Certificate validation failed; consider using the certname configuration option err: Could not retrieve catalog: Certificates were not trusted: hostname was not match with the server certificate warning: Not using cache on failed catalog [r...@rh1 steve]# puppetd --server puppet.testing.com --verbose -- waitforcert 60 --test warning: Certificate validation failed; consider using the certname configuration option err: Could not retrieve catalog: Certificates were not trusted: hostname was not match with the server certificate warning: Not using cache on failed catalog On May 26, 12:30 pm, SteveCriscuoli <stephen.criscu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Dave, > > I purposely set them up as 'bridged' so they're on the same subnet as > my entire LAN. > I modified the /etc/hosts table on each to have entries for both and > can ping each by > its name; I'm hoping that was a sufficient test. > > Appreciate the help, > > Steve > > On May 26, 11:09 am, Dave Cheney <d...@cheney.net> wrote: > > > > > You mentioned that eachFedorainstall was running in its own VM. Is > > TCP functional in those VM's and are they able to communicate with > > each other ? > > > Cheers > > > Dave > > > On 27/05/2009, at 1:02 AM, Pieter Barrezeele wrote: > > > > On 26 May 2009, at 13:27, SteveCriscuoli wrote: > > > >> I manually installed Ruby, Factor, and Puppet as per the instructions > > >> in the book. All seemd to be going well. > > >> I added a puppet user/group to both VMs. I added > > >> puppetmaster.testing.com to the /etc/hosts of the client box. > > >> When I started puppetmasterd I did NOT get a the complaint message > > >> about a missing site.pp ... it just started. I created a site.pp as > > >> done in the book's example and restarted puppetmasterd --verbose -- > > >> no- > > >> daemonize and that display the expected message. However, puppetd on > > >> the client did not connect, did not display the "notice: did not > > >> receive certificate" and did not repeat after 60 seconds as I was > > >> lead > > >> to believe would happen if I used > > > >> puppetd --server puppetmaster.testing.com --verbose --waitforcert 60 > > > >> and running puppetca --list on the server VM showed no indication > > >> that > > >> my client was waiting. > > > > Have you checked your iptables setup? > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Pieter.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---