On 30. 3. 2020 15:26, john doe wrote: > On 3/30/2020 1:20 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: >> On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 12:04 +0200, Michal Prívozník wrote: >>> On 27. 3. 2020 20:49, john doe wrote: >>>> If my understanding is correct, using 'try06' or 'debian' should do the >>>> same thing? >>> >>> Yes, that is the idea. However, these plugins were not introduced at the >>> same time. I think that especially Debian has delayed libvirt_guest >>> plugin. You can check if both plugins exist: >>> >>> ls /usr/lib64/libnss_libvirt* >>> >>> /usr/lib64/libnss_libvirt_guest.so.2 >>> /usr/lib64/libnss_libvirt.so.2 >> >> Note that paths are different in Debian-based distros, so the correct >> ones in this case are actually >> >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_libvirt.so.2 >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_libvirt_guest.so.2 >> > > I have upgraded that Buster host to Bullseye, so I have now a 6... version. > I have also the above two modules. > > I'm still not able to use 'libvirt_guest' though: > > --- Guest output (try06): > > root@try06:~# cat /etc/hostname > try06 > > --- Host output (host): > > root@host:# grep hosts: /etc/ns* > hosts: libvirt_guest > root@host:# virsh net-dhcp-leases default > Expiry Time MAC address Protocol IP address > Hostname Client ID or DUID > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2020-03-30 16:03:41 52:54:00:d4:e6:f0 ipv4 192.168.122.137/24 > - - > > > root@host:# getent hosts try06; echo $? > 2 > > > What am I missing? Hold on. 'libvirt_guest' NSS plugin is supposed to translate libvirt names to IP addresses. For instance: virsh start myDomain; ssh myDomain The 'libvirt' NSS plugin is supposed to translate hostnames as sent by guests to IP addresses. These two can be viewed as the following: libvirt_guest: virsh domifaddr --source lease $dom libvirt: virsh net-dhcp-leases $net | grep $hostname And this is where it gets interesting. In your previous e-mails, net-dhcp-leases (aka 'libvirt' plugin) worked because the guest did send hostname when doing DHCP. Now it doesn't (see '-' under 'Hostname' in the output). Therefore, the 'libvirt' NSS plugin won't work. And 'libvirt_guest' translates names of guests as seen by libvirt, i.e. names you pass to virsh commands. These are unrelated to '/etc/hostname' within guest. But hopefully, you haven't renamed your guest since then and it is still named 'try06', that is virsh list --all produces 'try06' in the list. If this is all true, can you share the output of: strace $(which getent) hosts try06 Michal