Puppet users - Feb 2014 - connecting puppet master and agent

HI 

I am new to Puppet and having a tough time understanding the process of how 
Authentication works in puppet. I am trying to connect puppet 3.4 master 
and agent on a centos 6 machine. we use host files, rather than dns.
This could be a simple question, but, I want to learn to Concepts. I made 
sure puppet is running on both master and agent. Here is my configuration:

On Master:

in puppet.conf

[master]
   certname = host.company.com
   vardir = /var/lib/puppet

in /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 
localhost4.localdomain4 puppet
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 
localhost6.localdomain6
10.16.7.22 host.company.com puppetmaster puppet

On Agent:

in puppet.conf 

[main]
    server = host.company.com

in /etc/hosts
10.16.7.22 host.company.com puppetmaster puppet

I still cant get them to authorize each other.
I am getting different errors:

On Agent:
sudo puppet agent --server=host.company.com --test

Error: Could not request certificate: Connection refused - connect(2)
Exiting; failed to retrieve certificate and waitforcert is disabled

If I change the certname to a fancy name, it gets even funnier, because, 
the agent looks for a host with than fancy name as there is no DNS. Please 
give some info on how to get that working too.

Can Someone please guide me.


Thanks
Krishna


-- 
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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/e90fb96a-97d2-4fb0-960b-da8307e6b5b2%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.