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Hi Tiffany,
> We are currently migrating our Linux servers(RHEL 6 >> RHEL7.8) and
> therefore updating our LDM from 6.11 to the latest version. I apologize
> ahead of time as LDM and Linux are both newer for me :)
No worries. We're here to help.
> I am currently running into an issue where in our ldmd.conf files if I
> have resolvable DNS names in the config it returns errors such as:
>
> [6443] LdmConfFile.c:getPrevProdInfo:557 NOTE Previous product-information
> file ".a359f4e7d19237320a0f4d9bb54de39d.info" doesn't exist
> [6443] requester6.c:req6_new:588 NOTE LDM-6 desired product-class:
> 20201005220650.914048 TS_ENDT {{WMO, "/home/rabin/ussw/eca([0-1][0-9][0-
> 3][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9][0-9]).gz"}}
> ; no such host is known236 WARN Couldn't get IP address of
> host dontpanic.nssl.noaa.gov
> [6443] LdmConfFile.c:requester_exec:925 NOTE Sleeping 60 seconds before
> retrying...
>
> I can do a nslookup and ldmping on the DNS name on the same server.
That's odd.
> However, when I put in the actual IP Address of the hostnames in the
> ldmd.conf it works just fine without errors. I have tried adding the IP &
> DNS to my etc/hosts file and it still fails.
>
> Is there something else I need to do for the DNS hostnames to work
> because that would be more ideal than using the direct IP?
Indeed.
Would you please send me the relevant REQUEST entry in the LDM
configuration-file and the output of the command
dig dontpanic.nssl.noaa.gov
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BSF-129906
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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