G'Day Chris! Just a guess, but maybe ceph is performing a dns lookup for b3 which is returning 127.0.0.1, and talking to 127.0.0.1 requires the loopback adapter? Kind Regards Nev On 2 February 2011 13:39, Chris Dunlop <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Samuel Just <samuelj <at> hq.newdream.net> writes: > > From the logs, it looks like the osd and mds are failing to bind to > > an address. Perhaps b3 is not a valid host name? > > Thanks! > > That wasn't it (b3 is valid), but you started me looking at the > networking side of things again (for the nth time) and this time > around I noticed there was no loopback interface on the box. That in > itself was odd, although it didn't immediately spring to mind that the > lack of a loopback would stop ceph working. But I added a loopback > anyway on the basis of "avoid oddness" and that got it all going. I > still don't know why a loopback is required for ceph, but apparently > it is! > > FYI, with it working, the osd and mds are still bound to the wildcard > address rather than to a specific address (as they were before the > loopback was installed). Without loopback: > > # lsof -n -i | egrep 'COMMAND|cmon|cmds|cosd' > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > cmon 3321 root 5u IPv4 8451 TCP 10.200.63.129:6789 (LISTEN) > cmds 3357 root 4u IPv4 8465 TCP *:6800 (LISTEN) > cmds 3357 root 5u IPv4 10044 TCP > 10.200.63.129:59480->10.200.63.129:6789 (SYN_SENT) > cosd 3466 root 3u IPv4 8548 TCP *:6801 (LISTEN) > cosd 3466 root 5u IPv4 8549 TCP *:6802 (LISTEN) > cosd 3466 root 6u IPv4 8550 TCP *:6803 (LISTEN) > cosd 3466 root 13u IPv4 10046 TCP > 10.200.63.129:59481->10.200.63.129:6789 (SYN_SENT) > > Note that the DEVICE number for the SYN_SENT connections keeps > changing in this situation. > > With the loopback: > > # lsof -n -i | egrep 'COMMAND|cmon|cmds|cosd' > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > cmon 6633 root 5u IPv4 13277 TCP 10.200.63.129:6789 (LISTEN) > cmon 6633 root 6u IPv4 14353 TCP > 10.200.63.129:6789->10.200.63.129:32884 (ESTABLISHED) > cmon 6633 root 7u IPv4 13367 TCP > 10.200.63.129:6789->10.200.63.129:32883 (ESTABLISHED) > cmds 6669 root 4u IPv4 13294 TCP *:6800 (LISTEN) > cmds 6669 root 5u IPv4 13366 TCP > 10.200.63.129:32883->10.200.63.129:6789 (ESTABLISHED) > cmds 6669 root 10u IPv4 13456 TCP > 10.200.63.129:41828->10.200.63.129:6801 (ESTABLISHED) > cosd 6741 root 3u IPv4 14350 TCP *:6801 (LISTEN) > cosd 6741 root 5u IPv4 14351 TCP *:6802 (LISTEN) > cosd 6741 root 6u IPv4 14352 TCP *:6803 (LISTEN) > cosd 6741 root 13u IPv4 13401 TCP > 10.200.63.129:32884->10.200.63.129:6789 (ESTABLISHED) > cosd 6741 root 14u IPv4 14467 TCP > 10.200.63.129:6801->10.200.63.129:41828 (ESTABLISHED) > > > > > Cheers, > > Chris. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html