[Openstack] When are hostnames okay and when are ip addresses required?

Vishvananda Ishaya vishvananda at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 21:27:23 UTC 2012


those are supposed to be ip addresses, so I would go with doc bug now unless there is a good reason to change it.

Vish

On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> Maybe I sent this out too late at night; I think it slipped below
> everyone's radar.  I'm interested in whether or not people think this
> behavior is a functional bug, or maybe just a documentation bug:
> 
>> I ran into an issue earlier today where I had metadata_host set to the
>> *hostname* of our controller.  This got stuffed into an iptables rule
>> as...
>> 
>>  -d os-controller.int.seas.harvard.edu/32
>> 
>> ...which promptly failed.  Setting this to an ip address fixed this
>> particular error, leading me to wonder:
>> 
>> - Is this expected behavior?
>> - Should I always use ip addresses for *_host values?
>> - Is this a bug?
>> - Should linux_net.py resolve hostnames?
> 
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