Metadata service caching old nameservers?

Brian Haley haleyb.dev at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 16:44:35 UTC 2019


On 8/30/19 4:30 AM, Grant Morley wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> The lease does have the two Google nameservers in it, however a new VM 
> is still somehow getting the old values as well. That is what is 
> confusing me.  If it helps we are using Queens still currently.
> 
> Is there any database entry that I can change?

If the DHCP lease doesn't have it in the reply then it's coming via 
cloud-init and the Nova metadata service, but I didn't see a way to 
change that yet via the API.

-Brian

> On 29/08/2019 20:32, Brian Haley wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/19 6:26 AM, Grant Morley wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We have a bit of a weird issue with resolv.conf for instances. We 
>>> have changed our subnets in neutron to use googles nameservers which 
>>> is fine. However it seems that when instances are launched they are 
>>> still getting the old nameserver settings as well as the new ones. If 
>>> I look at the metadata networking service it returns the old 
>>> nameservers as well as the new ones below:
>>>
>>> curl -i http://169.254.169.254/openstack/2017-02-22/network_data.json
>>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>> Content-Length: 753
>>> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:40:03 GMT
>>>
>>> {"services": [{"type": "dns", "address": "178.18.121.70"}, {"type": 
>>> "dns", "address": "178.18.121.78"}, {"type": "dns", "address": 
>>> "8.8.8.8"}, {"type": "dns", "address": "8.8.4.4"}]
>>>
>>> In our neutron dhcp-agent.ini file we have the correct dnsmasq 
>>> nameservers set:
>>>
>>> dnsmasq_dns_servers = 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
>>>
>>> Are there any database tables I can change or clear up to ensure the 
>>> old nameservers no longer get set? I can't seem to find any reference 
>>> in our config any more of the old nameservers, so I assume one of the 
>>> services is still setting them but I can't figure out what is.
>>
>> So does the DHCP response on lease renewal just have the two Google 
>> nameservers in it?  If so, does a new VM booted on the subnet have the 
>> correct metadata values reported?  Just trying to narrow-down if this 
>> is in the neutron code or not.
>>
>> -Brian
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