On 16 May 2011 20:26, Adam Heinz <a...@metricwise.net> wrote: I just refer to the puppetmaster as 'puppet' everywhere and drop an > entry in /etc/hosts for it. Then if I wanted to migrate off a server, > I would just hardcode away $servername and $serverip on the old > puppetmaster to point to the new one, and copy the certs over. > > node default { > case $fqdn { > /puppetmaster/: { > host { puppet: > host_aliases => [ "localhost.localdomain", "puppet" ], > ip => "127.0.0.1", > name => "localhost", > } > } > default: { > host { puppet: > host_aliases => $servername, > ip => $serverip, > name => "puppet", > } > } > } > } >
Why the distinction between the two? What's wrong with using a LAN IP on the puppetmaster machine as well? To me that's much clearer that misusing loopback. Thanks Chris -- 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.