By default, puppet looks for the hostname "puppet" for the server. You can change that in puppet.conf, but it's usually better to just use DNS to always point the the right box.
On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Kikanny wrote: > Holy crap! That fixed it! Thank you so much for your help! > > On Sep 24, 12:55 pm, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Try putting puppet as an alias to your server in /etc/hosts (DNS is a better >> long term solution, but /etc/hosts is usually easier). The test it again. >> If that doesn't work, test it with ping to make sure "ping puppet" works. >> >> On Sep 24, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Kikanny wrote: >> >>> Yup. I get the following when I say ping puppet >>> ping: unknown host puppet >> >>> So I haven't defined puppet as a hostname somewhere or something? >> >>> On Sep 24, 12:38 pm, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Sep 24, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Kikanny wrote: >> >>>>> Thanks guys! I upgraded puppet from 0.25.4 to 2.6.1. Now when I try to >>>>> run puppetd on the same machine as puppemasterd, I get the following >>>>> error message: >> >>>>> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: getaddrinfo: Name >>>>> or service not known >>>>> err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run >> >>>>> I'm not really sure what that means. Is it problem with my hostname or >>>>> dns or something? Any help would be appreciated! >> >>>> Just to clarify, 0.25.4 wasn't working either right? >> >>>> What happens if you run "ping puppet" on that computer? >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Puppet Users" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
