[ovirt-users] Engine setup: insistent DNS demand

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Jamie Lawrence
<jlawrence at squaretrade.com> 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.

IIUC engine-setup never fails on missing DNS resolution, only warns.

>
> 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,

Please check/post setup logs. Thanks!

Best,
-- 
Didi