[Openstack] nova ip 169.254.169.254

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon May 12 14:27:01 UTC 2014


The VMs typically shouldn't have a 169 route; also you can't ping the
metadata server since its usually DNAT on the port (80) rather than a fully
accessible IP address.

-Rob


On 13 May 2014 02:01, Howard Luckenbaugh <hlucken at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> This is part of IBM Smart Cloud Orchestrator which is running openstack as
> the backend.  I compared my IPtables to a working environment and it looks
> fine. I have rebooted and restarted. The VM's are getting a 169 route but
> can't ping.
> The only place I can ping is on the Region server which is where the 169
> address sits.
>
>
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> ---05/11/2014 11:29:04 PM---Few troubleshooting steps (assuming]"Gangur,
> Hrushikesh (R & D HP Cloud)" ---05/11/2014 11:29:04 PM---Few
> troubleshooting steps (assuming neutron's metadata agent): 1. Check through
> VM's console.log whe
>
> From: "Gangur, Hrushikesh (R & D HP Cloud)" <hrushikesh.gangur at hp.com>
> To: Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>, Howard
> Luckenbaugh/Raleigh/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 05/11/2014 11:29 PM
> Subject: RE: [Openstack] nova ip 169.254.169.254
> ------------------------------
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>
>
> Few troubleshooting steps (assuming neutron's metadata agent):
> 1. Check through VM's console.log whether VMs are acquiring DHCP Ip address
> 2. If not, check all the bridges (on both controller and compute) up and
> running s (br-int or br-tun), generally on reboot some of these bridges do
> not come up.
> 3. If yes to #1, restart neutron-metadata-agent
>
> Regards~hrushi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc at robertcollins.net<robertc at robertcollins.net>]
>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 3:03 PM
> To: Howard Luckenbaugh
> Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] nova ip 169.254.169.254
>
> On 10 May 2014 06:16, Howard Luckenbaugh <hlucken at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > This box was working and listening on 169.254.169.254 to access the
> > metadata of the machines. However it has stopped listening. I have
> > tried rebooting and comparing networks and etc and nothing I can see
> > is stopping it.  Anyone had this happen before.
>
> If you are using neutron's nova metadata agent, it runs a process per
> network, then uses a domain socket to escape the network namespace and
> communicate with a parent that talks to nova.
>
> If you are using nova-networking, its handled by an iptables DNAT rule to
> take incoming requests and forward them to the actual API IP address/port.
>
> -Rob
>
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