perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Chris Dagdigian <>]

Thanks for the answer! A quick reboot this morning after reverse DNS 
properly propagated and all is well.

Regards,
Chris


> Aaron Brown 
> <mailto:>
> January 20, 2015 at 7:58 AM
> 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
>
>
> Chris Dagdigian 
> <mailto:>
> January 19, 2015 at 7:48 PM
> 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