Puppet users - Jan 2007 - puppet and domainnames

Hello all,
when I do a signature request to puppetmaster, if no domainname is
configured then puppet gets it from /etc/resolv.conf. Even if the
"search" line is commented. I had to delete the search line in
resolv.conf to obtain a signature request with hostname only, and then
it appears with a final dot (hostname.). Is it that puppet does not like
being domainless ?
Many of my pc''s don''t have a domain and I prefer to send only
a hostname
to identify them on puppetmaster, it''s a bad idea to do it this way?

Thanks,
Lluis

On 01/19, Lluis Gili wrote:
> Hello all,
> when I do a signature request to puppetmaster, if no domainname is
> configured then puppet gets it from /etc/resolv.conf. Even if the
> "search" line is commented. I had to delete the search line in
> resolv.conf to obtain a signature request with hostname only, and then
> it appears with a final dot (hostname.). Is it that puppet does not like
> being domainless ?
> Many of my pc''s don''t have a domain and I prefer to send
only a hostname
> to identify them on puppetmaster, it''s a bad idea to do it this
way?
Hi,

Well I am quite new to puppet so I do not know the answer for the puppet
related part of the question, but I think this is not a puppet-only
question. Other programs will brake too (if not already).
I just recommend you to create a fake domain like:
.lan
.1
.internal

So it will look like: somehost.1

Just my toughts.
-- 
Microsoft is not the answer -- Microsoft is the question.
No is the answer.

CSILLAG Tamas (cstamas) - http://digitus.itk.ppke.hu/~cstamas

On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:44 AM, Csillag Tamas wrote:
> On 01/19, Lluis Gili wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> when I do a signature request to puppetmaster, if no domainname is
>> configured then puppet gets it from /etc/resolv.conf. Even if the
>> "search" line is commented. I had to delete the search line
in
>> resolv.conf to obtain a signature request with hostname only, and  
>> then
>> it appears with a final dot (hostname.). Is it that puppet does  
>> not like
>> being domainless ?
>> Many of my pc''s don''t have a domain and I prefer to
send only a
>> hostname
>> to identify them on puppetmaster, it''s a bad idea to do it
this way?
>
> Hi,
>
> Well I am quite new to puppet so I do not know the answer for the  
> puppet
> related part of the question, but I think this is not a puppet-only
> question. Other programs will brake too (if not already).
> I just recommend you to create a fake domain like:
> .lan
> .1
> .internal
>
> So it will look like: somehost.1
Hmm.  There''s no technical reason why Puppet should require a domain  
name on its own, so I would consider this a bug, I guess, but I agree  
with Csillag that this is not a good idea.  I definitely recommend  
setting a domain name somewhere.

Frankly, though, if Puppet is collecting a domain name that you''re  
not using, then just ignore it.  Puppet''s not using the domain name  
either, except in the certs, so you can safely ignore it.

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      -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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