How to set the DNS name in the puppet server

Question

Hi Team,

I am new to Puppet. I have installed the software for the puppet. But how to set the DNS name in the server?

akhtar · Answer 1 · Dec 31, 2020

Hi@MD,

You need to set the DNS name of your puppet server before you start its service. You can set the DNS name in the puppet.conf file.

$ vim /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf
      dns_alt_names= private dns of master(same m/c)

answered Dec 31, 2020 by akhtar
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I tried the entries in puppet.conf file with the FQDN of puppetmaster but didn't worked. Thanks for posting.

commented Jan 20, 2021 by NAVEEN T J

edited 6 days ago

I tried providing the FQDN as "puppet" in /etc/hosts, instead of giving actual FQDN or hostname it worked. This can be a work around as I know Iam fooling the system and not actual solution. If any one knows how to overcome issue please post. Not sure if someone has hardcoded the "puppet" FQDN while commiting. Iam not good at coding just a guess no offence. Also Iam new to system.