[et-mgmt-tools] TFTP open timeout troubleshooting

drew einhorn drew.einhorn at gmail.com
Fri May 23 18:10:54 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ole Ersoy <ole.ersoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> drew einhorn wrote:
>>
>> Don't need named, if you use dnsmasq instead of isc for dhcp.
>

The nice thing about using dnsmasq instead of named and isc dhcp
is that all your VMs automatically get added to your dns without any
extra work on your part.

> Hmmm - I'm using dhcp from isc.  I'll see if I can find a repository with
> the "named" dependency.
>
>> Don't know what cft is,
>>
>> Is there a firewall on your Fedora 8 box?  Maybe you need to
>> open up some ports.
>
> There is and I opened up the ports it mentions when during cobbler check.
>  I'll try to see if I can find a repository with named in it, and after
> installing, if it still is not working, I'll try switching off iptables all
> together.  All fingers crossed :-)
>
> Thanks,
> - Ole
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ole Ersoy <ole.ersoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I've gone over my settings up and down several times per the tutorials,
>>> and
>>> I'm still gettinga PXE open timeout on the client.  One difference
>>> between
>>> the tutorial and what I'm doing is that when I run (Fedora 8):
>>>
>>> yum -y install cobbler koan tftp-server dhcp cft facter puppet subversion
>>> httpd named
>>>
>>> I get:
>>>
>>> - No package named available.
>>> - No package cft available.
>>>
>>> Are these necessary?
>>>
>>> The DHCP Lease part works fine.
>>> Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this further?  I did make sure all the
>>> services are running and that I did a cobbler sync before attempting the
>>> run.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> - Ole
>>>
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