[ovirt-users] Engine setup: insistent DNS demand

[alexmcwhirter at triadic.us]

On 2015-11-06 20:00, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I’m having trouble finding current references to this problem. (I’m
> seeing workarounds from 2013, but, not surprisingly, things have
> changed since then.)
> 
> I’m attempting to run engine-setup, and get to the DNS reverse lookup
> of the FQDN. The machine has two (bonded) interfaces, one for storage
> and one for everything else. The “everything else” network has DNS
> service, the storage network doesn’t, and this seems to make
> engine-setup cranky. /etc/hosts is properly set up for the storage
> network, but that apparently doesn’t count. I tried running with the
> -offline flag, but that apparently still expects DNS.
> 
> We do not want/need DNS on the storage network, and I’m hoping someone
> knows a workaround for this not involving DNSMasq.
> 
> I considered downing that interface for the setup, but I don’t know
> why engine-setup is so insistent about DNS, and hiding an interface
> seems like a potentially bad idea in any case, so I thought I’d ask
> about it first.
> 
> Details:
> ovirt-engine.noarch 0:3.6.0.3-1.el7.centos
> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone.noarch 0:3.6.0.3-1.el7.centos
> 
> CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
> 
> TIA, and happy weekend to all,
> 
> -j
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Im using an older version of ovirt, so it may not apply. But i have all 
of my systems setup with /etc/hosts and no DNS at all. The installer 
complained, but it still installed and ran just fine. Downing the 
interface you want ovirt to use during setup is a bad idea.