[chef] Re: Re: Re: knife ssh issues

[Mike < >]

Cassiano,

You can set these values in knife.rb:


knife[:ssh_attribute] = 'ec2.local_ipv4' # or such
knife[:ssh_user] = 'ubuntu'

There's more configs, you might want to try knife-config to see them
all. http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/03/25/knife-config-plugin/

-M


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Cassiano Leal 
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 wrote:
> It really is not resolvable, as it’s an internal AWS name.
>
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> Using -a solved it, thanks a lot!
>
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> Is there a way to set this (and probably -x along with it) as a default, say
> in knife.rb?
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> Thanks!
>
> --
> Cassiano Leal
> http://cassianoleal.com
> http://twitter.com/cassianoleal
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> On July 22, 2013 at 11:23:20, Mat Schaffer 
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>  wrote:
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> This often means that the node name isn't resolvable by DNS.
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> You can specify an alternate attribute to use as the connection hostname
> with 'knife ssh -a'
>
> On Monday, July 22, 2013, Cassiano Leal wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I’m trying to use knife ssh to run chef-client on demand on some servers,
>> but it’s failing with this message:
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>>
>> WARNING: Failed to connect to  -- SocketError: getaddrinfo: nodename nor
>> servname provided, or not known
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>>
>> The servers are on an AWS VPN to which I connect via VPN. Is this
>> something that’s missing on my part, maybe knife configuration?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Cassiano Leal
>> http://cassianoleal.com
>> http://twitter.com/cassianoleal
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>
> --
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> -Mat
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> about.me/matschaffer
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