perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Chris,

It’s run each time, unfortunately. The way to ‘fix’ that is to edit 
/opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/gui/services/etc/web_admin.conf and add 
“disable_ipv4_reverse_lookup     1”. That will stop doing the reverse lookups.

Cheers,
Aaron

> On Jan 19, 2015, at 7:48 PM, Chris Dagdigian 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I set up the NetInstall version of PS toolkit this evening on a new box  in 
> prep for the workshop in Ohio on Wed --  but my configured reverse DNS info 
> did not propagate in time so the current web interface is showing links 
> that reference the reverse DNS lookup that the ISP provided which do not 
> actually resolve in the forward direction.
> 
> End result is broken unresolvable hostname links on the toolkit web 
> interface.
> 
> Not sure if the hostname detection is run once during install and not 
> checked again but changing the hostname manually, putting it into 
> /etc/hosts all have no effect - the server reboots with the old / 
> unresolvable hostname or "primary address" derived during the original 
> install.
> 
> Is there a way to override the hostname or "primary address" post install 
> that is used in the web UI? Or perhaps a script that will re-run the 
> initial config using the new hostname and reverse DNS lookup answers?
> 
> Regards,
> Chris