Re: Multiple network cards

[Mark Burgess]

On  4 Feb, Jon Wilks wrote:
> After fitting a second NIC to our Solaris server, cfengine has started
> giving these warnings;
> 
> skydog: Key-authentication for skydog.baseng.comm.mot.com failed
> skydog: Unable to establish connection with
> zuk02mon02.baseng.comm.mot.com
> cfengine:skydog: Key-authentication for skydog.baseng.comm.mot.com
> failed
> cfengine:skydog: Unable to establish connection with zuk02mon02
> 
> Cfengine still runs however (files get copied from the config master)
> so I suspect the problem lies in ssh getting confused with the host
> name having 2 ip addresses.
> 
> The trouble is that this message only occurs from cfexecd in daemon
> mode.  If I run cfagent or cfexecd –F then the warning does not
> display.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I have already tried having 2 key files in
> /var/cfengine/ppkeys, one for each ip address but this has no effect.
> 
> Robson.
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If the default IP address has changed, open up the trust
channels again and the keys will be duplicated for the new
addresses -- or copy the old IP key on the server to another
file with the new address as well. (same key, two addresses)

M

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