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On Aug 9, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Xin Zhao <xzhao at bnl.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> In my essex install on RHEL6, there is a problem with the metadata service.
> The metadata service works for instances running on the controller node, where
> the nova-api(metadata service) is running. But for the other worker nodes,
> the metadata service is intermittent, ie. the instances sometimes can get its metadata,
> sometime it fails with errors like:
> 
> $> curl -v http://169.254.169.254:8775/
> * About to connect() to 169.254.169.254 port 8775 (#0)
> *   Trying 169.254.169.254... Connection timed out
> * couldn't connect to host
> * Closing connection #0
> curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
> 
> Any idea where should I start investigating this?

This looks strange, the instance should not be putting port 8775 in the request,
it should be on port 80.

Vish