[chef] Problem bootstrapping Ubuntu 12.04 (newbie alert!)

[Ton Machielsen < >]

Hi all!

I am setting up a local Chef environment to learn Chef.

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 chef server, a Ubuntu 12.04 node and a Windows 2008 node. All virtual in VMWare Fusion.

My client is a Mac where also Fusion is installed.

Server is working. Client is working. Bootstrapping the Windows node works fine.

Problem is bootstrapping the Ubuntu node.

I use knife bootstrap <linux node ip> -x <my userid> -P <my password> --sudo --use-sudo-password -V

The only response i get is "Bootstrapping Chef on <linux node ip>". Nothing else.

Running top on the node doesn't tell me anything.

Protocol analyzer tells me there is an SSH key exchange, then the node does a DNS lookup for my client which obviously ends in a "no such name" from the DNS server.

Does my client need to be resolvable for the bootstrap to work?

Can someone point me to a troubleshooting guide for this issue?

Thanks,

Ton.