[ipxe-devel] Using CNAME pointer to http web server creates failure of lookup in dns using iPXE

[shaggy surfer]

Hi guys,

It appears if you have a CNAME pointer to your actual vhost name in apache, that the imgfetch and other cmd options will not be able to handle it.  I tested this and when using an "A" record directly to ip for the fqdn of the vhost name it works and is able to get the files.  Also if you use the ip address of the machine and get for instance the default or index html file it will work.

To repeat, just create a CNAME, here is my example setup:

hostname is server01.example.com
server01.example.com points to 192.168.0.2
cname is created for ipxe.example.com pointing to server01.example.com

ipxe>  imgfetch http://ipxe.example.com/filenameindocumentroot

This will fail.  This was after downloading the http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.pxe and following the example here:  https://gist.github.com/robinsmidsrod/2234639

Thanks to robinsmidsrod for the help in the irc channel.  He helped me to narrow down where the problem might be.

Best Regards,

Shaggy Surfer
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