On Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 1:13:59 AM UTC-5, Zhang Zhao wrote: > > Hi, > I am new to Puppet. Trying to set up a test environment. But the agent > could not request a certificate as connection refused. I made sure that > puppet server was running and service was enabled. Anyone can let me know > where was wrong? Thanks. > > A "connection refused" message such as that describes a general networking error, not specific to Puppet. It should be taken to indicate that the local machine successfully resolved a remote address to attempt a connection to, but its connection attempt was actively rejected. Such a rejection almost always means one of two things:
- there is no service currently accepting connections on the target port on the remote machine, or - a firewall, proxy, or other component in the network path between the two endpoints actively interceded to block the connection. You seem to have established that the puppetserver service is running on its machine, and for the moment it is reasonable to suppose that it is running on its normal port. You claim that "the" firewall was disabled prior to starting Puppet, but do note that there may be multiple firewalls to contend with: - on the Puppet master (I suppose this is the one you turned off), - on the Puppet client (this one is probably not the issue, but don't overlook it), and - *on devices in between*, which in your particular configuration could very well include the VM host. It is not safe to neglect the last of those possibilities, as I can attest from personal experience. But before delving too deeply into such issues, however, do start with the basics. Can you confirm that the name the client is using for the master resolves for it to the correct address of the master? If so, then can the client communicate with the master at all (via ping, for example)? John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/8a731f6e-5e1e-48cf-a309-6c9a172dd165%40googlegroups.com.
