Error while trying to ping a WIN 2016

[Selva Kumar]

Hi Team,

I'm running Ansible 2.4.3.0 on a Ubuntu server. While trying to access a Windows 2016 server, getting below error. The DNS is working fine. Can someone help me in fixing this? 

ansible_host=XXX.XXX.XX | UNREACHABLE! => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "ssl: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ansible_host= XXX.XXX.XX ', port=5986): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f0f3e5d5c50>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',))",

    "unreachable": true

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regard

Selvakumar
+91-7795104427

[Jordan Borean]

It really does sound like DNS is the issue, the problem is due to an underlying library not being able to establish the connection. You can try and just setup a raw connection with openssl to verify the host is resolvable and the HTTPS stack is working on the Windows side. To do this run,

openssl s_client -host hostname -port 5986

Thanks

Jordan

[J Hawkesworth]

I'd add 'use hostnames, not ip addresses' as well, HTTPS (and kerberos/Active Directory) really need hostnames, not ip addresses to work (you may be, I can't tell from your example though).

Hope this helps,

Jon