For a couple of hosts behind a couple of firewalls, we have to override both the server and the port that the kickstart should download the RPMs from. As these are virtual machines, with 2.0.4 it is quite easy to override the "server" value to something like "10.68.1.128:10080" and an ssh tunnel at 10.68.1.128 does the rest of the work. This works well, because it generates a kickstart string like: url --url=http://10.68.1.128:10080/cblr/links/Fedora-13-x86_64 The reason this works is that the http_port is ignored (we use the default 80) and so the override string fits just fine as a workaround. However, commit 236ad1ca9f30012cadf9f55b8acf8b23cc5de673 (it is in 2.0.5) broke this workaround with the following error halfway through "cobbler sync": Mon Sep 27 17:25:22 2010 - INFO | Exception occured: socket.gaierror Mon Sep 27 17:25:22 2010 - INFO | Exception value: (-2, 'Name or service not known') Mon Sep 27 17:25:22 2010 - INFO | Exception Info: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 95, in run rc = self._run(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 184, in runner return self.remote.api.sync(self.options.get("verbose",False),logger=self.logger) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 610, in sync return sync.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 122, in run self.pxegen.write_all_system_files(x) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/pxegen.py", line 294, in write_all_system_files self.write_pxe_file(f2,system,profile,distro,working_arch) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/pxegen.py", line 565, in write_pxe_file ipaddress = socket.gethostbyname_ex(blended["http_server"])[2][0] Obviously, since our "server" includes a port, gethostbyname_ex is failing to resolve "10.68.1.128:10080". I don't mind making the commits myself (both for master and stable) but I would like to know what the preferred solution would be. I can think of two approaches: a) Introduce a server_port setting for systems (to complement the current "server" override) and we can then set that to 10080. b) fix the calls to gethostbyname_ex so they only replace the hostname with an IP, and leave anything after a trailing ":" intact Thoughts? -- (* Georgi Georgiev (* No man is an island if he's on at least (* *) Sysadmin Head *) one mailing list. *) (* -SBI Japannext- (* (*