[Bug 732953] Re: can_connect function inside ec2.rb always return false

[David Lowes]

Hi,
Is there any chance you can backport your fix to lucid or integrate my patch
into lucid?
Please advise me.
David Lowes

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Adam Gandelman
<732953 at bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> Confirming that this bug still exists in natty (facter 1.5.8-2ubuntu2)
> but has since been fixed upstream. The issue exists in the
> "can_connect?"  method and has little to do with the actual URL
> elsewhere, though changing the meta-data URL to use "/latest" instead of
> "/2008-02-01" provides a few more additional facts about network
> interfaces, security group and host names (as of today, at least).
>
> ** Changed in: facter (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
>
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> Title:
>  can_connect function inside ec2.rb always return false
>
> Status in “facter” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: facter
>
>  the can_connect function in ec2.rb always return false.
>  I modified the code as follows and it seems to have fixed the issue:
>  Before (Line 9 in ec2.rb):  Timeout::timeout(wait_sec) {open(ip, port)}
>  After: Timeout::timeout(wait_sec) {open("http://
> #{ip}:#{port}/latest/meta-data")}
>
>  After that change, the module seems to work properly in EC2 instances.
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