chef upload cookbook failed with network error

Question

I've created a chef server on a virtual machine (192.168.0.21). The server runs fine on https (this is the last version from the opscode site).

knife user list (and the other list commands) run fine, returning the right results (all the users/nodes/clients. new users shows just fine).

when I'm trying to upload a cookbook to the server, I'm getting this error:

Network Error: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known Check your knife configuration and network settings

or this longer error:

ERROR: Network Error: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known Check your knife configuration and network settings /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError) from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:inopen' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in block in connect' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:69:intimeout' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:100:in timeout' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:inconnect' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:756:in do_start' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:745:instart' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:172:in transmit' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:64:inexecute' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:33:in execute' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/resource.rb:76:input' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.8.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:153:in block in uploader_function_for' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.8.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:25:incall' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.8.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:25:in block (3 levels) in setup_worker_threads' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.8.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:24:inloop' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.8.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:24:in `block (2 levels) in setup_worker_threads'

the knife.rb file:

log_level                :info
log_location             STDOUT
node_name                'dony'
client_key               '/home/dony/.chef/dony.pem'
validation_client_name   'chef-validator'
validation_key           '/home/dony/Documents/cd/cv.pem'
chef_server_url          'https://192.168.0.21'
syntax_check_cache_path  '/home/dony/.chef/syntax_check_cache'
cookbook_path   [ "/home/dony/Documents/chef" ]

Since other commands to the server are working, I can't put my finger on that issue.

Solution

it appears that it is the server fault. server FQDN should be set on the server side.

1. edit /etc/hostname, to e.g. yourhost.dyndns.org
2. run: hostname -F /etc/hostname

thats all

Comments

[donald]

the chef_server_url is configure correctly in the knife.rb file, otherwise I won't be able to run command to the server (e.g. list). I don't know if a client.rb will help, but I'll definitely try that. Thank you anyway, and I'll update here for any results.

[donald]

Sorry. This solution is not helping. thanks for your time

[Ashish Karpe]

@MikeFiedler $ knife cookbook list apt 2.6.1 awesome_customers 0.1.0 firewall 1.5.2 httpd 0.2.19 learn_chef_apache2 0.2.1 poise 2.3.2 This means my knife configuration is Ok .... & $ hostname ashishk.example.com .....this shows network settings is also Ok ....Still getting error ERROR: Network Error: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known Check your knife configuration and network settings