[ipxe-devel] Wierd DNS issue

[Christian Hesse]

Niket Kandya <niketkandya at gmail.com> on Mon, 2013/07/01 13:27:
> Hi, I am setting up some chain loading environment (VMWare auto deploy) and
> I have the following. Please help me out if you know a fix.
> ----------------------------
> iPXE 1.0.0+ (9361) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org
> Features: HTTP HTTPS iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT Menu
> 
> iPXE> dhcp net0
> DHCP (net0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)...... ok
> iPXE> show ip
> net0.dhcp/ip:ipv4 = 192.168.0.50
> iPXE> show dns
> net0.dhcp/dns:ipv4 = 192.168.0.1
> iPXE> show gateway
> net0.dhcp/gateway:ipv4 = 192.168.0.1
> iPXE> show next-server
> net0.dhcp/next-server:ipv4 = 192.168.0.1
> iPXE> show netmask
> net0.dhcp/netmask:ipv4 = 255.255.255.0
> iPXE> show domain
> net0.dhcp/domain:string = test.com
> iPXE> chain https://192.168.0.52:6501/vmw/rbd/tramp
> https://192.168.0.52:6501/vmw/rbd/tramp... Error 0x3e11613b (
> http://ipxe.org/3e11613b)
> ------------------------------------
> When i looked up it is "Error: DNS name does not exist". Clearly dns is
> visible here..

The error page referenced above does tell you:

> * Check that the hostname portion of the URL you are using is actually a
>   hostname and not an IP address if using HTTPS.

I suppose this is what breaks your setup.
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