Confusing message from dns error

[[email protected]…]

I've got an error from the bcfg2 client regarding an error that people did have here and reproducing it give out this error against trunk. This error was reproduced by putting an different hostname in the A-record of the dns server or putting a double entry in the dns server.

[email protected]:~# bcfg2 -kevq
no server x509 fingerprint; no server verification performed!
Unknown failure
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Proxy.py", line 27, in __call__
    return _Method.__call__(self, *args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1286, in _parse_response
    return u.close()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 744, in close
    raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
Fault: <Fault 6: 'Client metadata resolution error for 10.145.3.26'>
Failed to download probes from bcfg2
Server Failure

This error is a bit confusing, so i suggest that we put a notice to look to the syslog of the server so that the user can see the other error attached to it.

I've made a little patch suggesting solution to the user so he can resolved the error.

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Patch clarifying the error and possible working solution

[desai]

I've improved the error message on the server side, and cleaned up the client-side error handling. This is fixed in [93baa718c3182f3b2b59280ac141e71a4a75b29c] (SVN r4693)