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cloud-init selects wrong mirror with dns server redirection #2254
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Launchpad user Launchpad Janitor(janitor) wrote on 2012-05-09T19:36:14.073546+00:00 Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. |
Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2012-05-09T21:24:34.162131+00:00 The clear solution here is to use google dns (8.8.8.8) or opendns or some other dns server that does not provide bogus answers for non-existing domains. That said, I think we'll likely be finding a better solution for discovery of a local mirror by an instance. |
Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2012-08-03T18:57:31.041306+00:00 This was fixed in trunk in revno 612. |
Launchpad user Launchpad Janitor(janitor) wrote on 2012-08-03T19:00:13.087024+00:00 This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 0.7.0~bzr614-0ubuntu1 cloud-init (0.7.0~bzr614-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
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Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2012-08-06T15:09:10.311912+00:00 This is fixed in cloud-init trunk and in the ubuntu quantal package listed in comment 4.
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Launchpad user Steve Langasek(vorlon) wrote on 2012-12-10T23:05:50.399351+00:00 Hello Chuck, or anyone else affected, Accepted cloud-init into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/0.6.3-0ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! |
Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2012-12-12T21:07:17.056339+00:00 following steps in description, i booted a cloud-image with new cloud-init and verified that it did not have 'ubuntu-mirror' in the /etc/apt/sources.list entries. |
Launchpad user Clint Byrum(clint-fewbar) wrote on 2013-01-08T19:16:32.303134+00:00 Hello Chuck, or anyone else affected, Accepted cloud-init into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/0.6.3-0ubuntu1.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! |
Launchpad user Colin Watson(cjwatson) wrote on 2013-01-16T14:20:09.648043+00:00 The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions. |
Launchpad user Launchpad Janitor(janitor) wrote on 2013-01-16T14:20:17.525104+00:00 This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 0.6.3-0ubuntu1.3 cloud-init (0.6.3-0ubuntu1.3) precise-proposed; urgency=low
cloud-init (0.6.3-0ubuntu1.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low
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This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as LP: #974509
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Launchpad user Chuck Short(zulcss) wrote on 2012-04-05T18:31:55.414711+00:00
=== Begin SRU Information ===
[Impact]
* If a user launches an cloud-image in an environment where the DNS
server does DNS redirection (also known as DNS hijacking), then the
system will configure itself to use a mirror at
http://ubuntu-mirror/ubuntu .
This behavior was by design in cloud-init. It was intended to allow
a cloud provider to set up a mirror at 'ubuntu-mirror' and have
cloud-init select the mirror transparently. However, this causes
failure if dns hijacking ins being used.
* The fix is two fold:
a.) cloud-init's code that checks for DNS entries is now protected
by logic that detects the dns hijacking and does not consider
such entries as valid.
b.) the selection of the "search dns for 'ubuntu-mirror'" behavior
has been disabled by default.
[Test Case]
* download cloud image from cloud-images.ubuntu.com, and convert for use
$ url="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/server/releases/precise/release-20121026.1/"
$ wget "$url/ubuntu-12.04-server-cloudimg-i386-disk1.img" -O disk.img.orig
$ qemu-img convert -O raw disk.img.orig disk.raw.dist
* have some way to add 'ubuntu-mirror' to the dns for kvm guests (or
just have a service provider that uses dns hijacking)
I used dnsmasq on a server system, and can control this by adding entries
to /etc/hosts. You need to be able to configure your system such
that 'host ubuntu-mirror' returns something:
$ host ubuntu-mirror
ubuntu-mirror has address 192.168.1.1
* boot kvm guest (cloud-localds from 12.10 cloud-utils)
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b disk.raw.dist disk.img
# this user-data just sets password so you can log in
$ cat user-data.txt
#cloud-config
password: passw0rd
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True
$ cloud-localds seed.img user-data.txt
$ kvm -m 512 -curses -drive file=seed.img,if=virtio
-drive file=disk.img,if=virtio
* login and see problem.
looking at sources.list will show 'ubuntu-mirror' entry
[Regression Potential]
* A regression is possible due to this designed change in behavior. If
someone was expecting the 'ubuntu-mirror' mirror to be automatically
located they will subsequently have to take different means to
accomplish this. That can be either:
a.) modifying the image to set 'apt_mirror_search_dns: true'
b.) doing 'a' through user-data user-data
* The change made in quantal was tested for regression as described in
comment 5 below.
[Other Info]
* The changes here also enable 2 other fixes
* allowing region/availability-zone to be part of mirror (bug 1037727)
* making mirror selection arch aware (bug #1028501)
=== End SRU Information ===
=== original bug report ===
Hi,
I have Rogers as an ISP in the great white north, and use their DNS servers. However they run DNS redirectors so that when you get a bad domain then it does bogus things to the hostname. Anyways this resolves in unresovalble hosts in my /etc/apt/sources.list when Im running an openstack instance.
ubuntu@server-5:/var/log$ host nov.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com
nov.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com has address 8.15.7.107
nov.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com has address 63.251.179.17
Host nov.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Host nov.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
The console output is the following:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/916324/
If you have any questions please let me know.
Regards
chuck
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