This sounds like a JuJu problem to me :) IMHO, /etc/hosts should not redirect $HOSTNAME to anything other than a routable external interface in a real environment with working DNS. Assuming your machine is not called "localhost" I think that this is a configuration issue.
** Changed in: nova Status: New => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1201873 Title: dnsmasq does not use -h, so /etc/hosts sends folks to loopback when they look up the machine it's running on Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Opinion Bug description: from dnsmasq(8): -h, --no-hosts Don't read the hostnames in /etc/hosts. I reliably get bit by this during certain kinds of deployments, where my nova-network/dns host has an entry in /etc/hosts such as: 127.0.1.1 hostname.example.com hostname I keep having to edit /etc/hosts on that machine to use a real IP, because juju gets really confused when it looks up certain openstack hostnames and gets sent to its own instance! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1201873/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp