[chef] Re: Unable to install berkshelf due to EHOSTDOWN

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Anthony Kong wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> After running a chef command to create a cookbook ('chef generate cookbook 
> motd'), I tried to install the berkshelf in order to run convergence.
> 
> 
> $ gem install berkshelf
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EHOSTDOWN)
> Host is down - sendto(2) for "10.0.1.4" port 53
> 
> 
> Why the IP is 10.0.1.4? How can I fix it?
> 
> Thanks, Tony 
Port 53 is DNS and 10.x.x.x is a private network, so it looks like a 
networking issue with your local network.

BTW, The recommended way to install berkshelf is via ChefDK, which gives you 
a pre-built dependency solver library. Doing a gem install will install 
gecode from source which takes a few minutes and needs a fair bit of RAM.

https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk

-- 
Daniel DeLeo