Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt engine and primary DNS

On 27/10/16 11:34, Simone Tiraboschi wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Jonas Israelsson < jonas.israelsson(a)elementary.se&gt; wrote: > Greetings. > > We are under the impression if the machine that runs the oVirt-engine > looses it's primary nameserver, the oVirt web-ui becomes more or less > unresponsive. > > By primary I mean the nameserver at the top of resolv.conf > > In 3.x it was a disaster, 4.0 is far better, but for instance trying to > import storage domains just gives you a spinning wheel when it's searching > for nfs-domains to display. > > By reorder the nameservers in resolv.conf we got it working yesterday > during our 3.6 ---> 4.0 migration. > > Could someone confirm this, please ? > > Yes, in order to correctly work, oVirt requires a working DNS also for reverse resolution. Well it's not like the machine (nor oVirt) doesn’t have a working DNS. My point is, I'm under the impression it only uses one (the first) from resolv.conf and ignores the rest.

Rgds, Jonas