Where does the puppet master get its hostname

[Greg Coit]

Hi all,

I have a new puppet server named grover.example.com.  I've set both the server and certname to grover.example.com in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf (this is CentOS 6.4).  I've also verified the hostname:

hostname:

grover.example.com

However, when I start puppetmaster, it always created a cert named grover and *not* grover.example.com:

puppet master --no-daemonize --verbose:

Info: Creating a new SSL key for grover

Info: Creating a new SSL certificate request for grover

Info: Certificate Request fingerprint (SHA256): 07:04:47:E0:F5:26:7A:B3:29:83:12:72:09:E0:45:9F:17:9F:E1:57:DC:05:71:10:FE:31:47:5E:4F:47:38:8A

Notice: grover has a waiting certificate request

Notice: Signed certificate request for grover

Notice: Removing file Puppet::SSL::CertificateRequest grover at '/var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/requests/grover.pem'

Notice: Removing file Puppet::SSL::CertificateRequest grover at '/var/lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_requests/grover.pem'

Notice: Starting Puppet master version 3.2.4

Using "puppet master --no-daemonize --verbose --server grover.example.com" makes no difference.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thank you!!!

Greg

[Nathan Valentine]

Check both of the following: /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network. 

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[Greg Coit]

Man, I could have swear i tested this...

/etc/sysconfig/network was correct.

/ets/hosts had:

ip grover grover.example.com

I switched that to:

ip grover.example.com grover

and the cert is now named grover.example.com.  :) 

Thank you!!!

Greg

[Cory Stoker]

Puppet uses Facter to determine the FQDN. I believe Facter uses a few
methods to try and figure out the domain part, namely:
hostname -f
dnsdomainname
parse out /etc/resolv.conf for the domain or search lines.

HTH,
Cory

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[Nathan Valentine]

Out of curiosity, your Puppet master was spun up how? As a Vagrant VM?

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[Greg Coit]

Nathan,

It was spun up by hand from a CentOS 6.4 disk. I added the grover
lines to the /etc/hosts file myself after setting the hostname.

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