[ipxe-devel] Wierd DNS issue

[Robin Smidsrød]

On 03.07.2013 00:29, Christian Hesse wrote:
> 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.

I added that to the wiki earlier today after getting this same message
posted on the forum. I've added an explanation on the forum as well.

Here's the link in case anyone wants to follow up there:

http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=6959

-- Robin