Jira (PUP-10498) host resources don't support stock Linux configurations

Gene Liverman (Jira)

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PUP-10498

host resources don't support stock Linux configurations

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2020/05/11 5:53 AM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Gene Liverman

For all version of Puppet that I am aware of, the host resource type does not support a stock configuration of Linux. In particular, both RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu flavors come with IPv6 enabled by default. This results in two stock entries in /etc/hosts that resemble this:

127.0.0.1       localhost

::1             localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

As it stands today, running "puppet resource host" will not return both of these entries - it will only return the IPv4 variant. Additionally, it seems to be impossible to precisely recreate this pair of entries, or any other entry for which a name has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address.