Editing /etc/hosts On Puppetmaster Server

[Robert L Cochran]

Besides having a CNAME record on my DNS box (which is entirely separate 
from the box that I'm running puppetmaster on), I experimented a bit and 
on the puppetmaster server I edited the /etc/hosts localhost entry like 
this, appending 'puppet' to the end of the line:

127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain localhost deafeng3.signtype.info 
deafeng3 puppet

Pinging 'puppet' now gets this:

[rlc at deafeng3 ~]$ ping -c3 puppet
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 
time=0.084 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 
time=0.101 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 
time=0.101 ms

which should be okay for the puppet client running on the same machine 
as the server. If it doesn't look right, feel free to correct me.

Bob