[Bug 475354] Re: Hostname not set correctly on UEC cloud due to IP address in local-hostname manifest data (DNS)

[Dustin Kirkland]

Okay, worked on this a bit here today at the Distro Sprint.

We enabled Eucalyptus' DNS with: DISABLE_DNS="N" in
/etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf.

This seems to work well enough to provide dynamically generated host
names to vm's.  See:

RESERVATION     r-43AC08FE      admin   default
INSTANCE        i-2DC5056F      emi-DF7014F1    euca-172-19-1-2.eucalyptus.localhost    euca-172-19-1-2.eucalyptus.internal     running         mykey   0       c1.medium       2010-02-03T22:14:40.651Z        canyonedge       eki-25291A19    eri-058C1996

So this gets us part of the way there.

HOWEVER, there's a major piece of this that cannot be solved without
external configuration of your network's DNS.

Even though my instance might have hostname
euca-172-19-1-2.eucalyptus.localhost, I cannot ssh to
euca-172-19-1-2.eucalyptus.localhost without tweaking my DNS
configuration.

For this reason, we cannot actually fix this bug within Ubuntu's Eucalyptus package.  Rather, this will need to be solved in some how-to documentation under:
 * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/DNS

Upstream has some good docs at
http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/DynamicDNSGuide.  We'll base our guide
on this, and tailor it for UEC.

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Hostname not set correctly on UEC cloud due to IP address in local-hostname manifest data (DNS)
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