[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#658750: puppet: host type cannot represent a host with more than one ip

[Stephen Gran]

Package: puppet
Version: 2.6.2-5+squeeze3
Severity: normal

Hi,

The puppet host type seems to think that all hostnames map to one and
only one ip address.  This is just not true.  This makes it impossible
to represent, for instance, the following:

steve at varinia:~$ getent hosts google.com
74.125.230.80   google.com
74.125.230.81   google.com
74.125.230.82   google.com
74.125.230.83   google.com
74.125.230.84   google.com

Or, the more interesting use case for me, a multi-homed host.  If the
host type didn't conflate $name with the first entry after the ip, you
could kludge this with 
  host {
     $host-ipv4: 
        hostname => $host,
        ip       => 1.2.3.4;
     $host-ipv6:
        hostname => $host,
        ip       => 2001::1;
  }

But I can't even do that.  I think the best thing is for ip to be
changed to be able to take an array, personally, but I'm also not picky
about how this is resolved (not an intentional pun there, sorry).

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser              3.112+nmu2          add and remove users and groups
ii  facter               1.5.7-3             a library for retrieving facts fro
pn  libopenssl-ruby      <none>              (no description available)
ii  libruby [libxmlrpc-r 4.5                 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8    1.4.1-8             Interface of shadow password for R
ii  lsb-base             3.2-23.2squeeze1    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  puppet-common        2.6.2-5+squeeze3    Centralized configuration manageme
ii  ruby1.8              1.8.7.302-2squeeze1 Interpreter of object-oriented scr

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
pn  libaugeas-ruby1.8             <none>     (no description available)
ii  ruby [rdoc]                   4.5        An interpreter of object-oriented 

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  libselinux-ruby1.8            <none>     (no description available)
pn  puppet-el                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  vim-puppet                    <none>     (no description available)

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