Hello, There is a Facter bug affecting Puppet 2.7 and Puppet Enterprise 2.5 on Windows[1]. The bug causes Facter to report different values for a hosts' domain, and therefore fqdn, at different times. This, in turn, affects certificates and the node name. We have already fixed this in Facter 2.0, but not Facter 1.6.x, which Puppet 2.7 and PE 2.5 depend on. We have received a number of requests to have this issue fixed[2][3], and we would like to see this issue resolved as soon as possible to stop the bug from proliferating.
However, if we do make this change in Facter 1.6.x, it means the fqdn fact may change in Puppet 2.7 and PE 2.5. If it does, you will need to re-issue certificates for these hosts, but it may also involve updating node entries in manifests, renaming nodes in dashboard, etc. We believe that most users that have been affected by this problem, would in fact welcome it being fixed, even though it may require additional steps if the Windows node name changes. However, there may be a set of users that have come to rely on the current behavior, and would not be in favor of this change in a maintenance release. I have created a simply ruby test script that will display what the domain fact would change to, if at all[4]. Basically, it tests whether the primary dns domain is set, and if so, gives preference to that over the per-interface dns domain. If the script shows that the domain would change to the "wrong" domain, please let us know. I would also ask that if you have a primary dns domain set, how was it configured? Was it set via Active Directory, manually configured in computer properties, etc? Thank you, Josh [1] https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12864 [2] https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12116 [3] https://groups.google.com/a/puppetlabs.com/group/pe-users/browse_thread/thread/2d9df7a4c8535cf8/b16b376bb9622eef#b16b376bb9622eef [4] https://gist.github.com/2726251 -- Josh Cooper Developer, Puppet Labs -- 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.
