Problematic /etc/hosts file entry in provisioned VM about oh-my-vagrant HOT 7 CLOSED

@pschiffe The /etc/hosts automagic happens in this section:

https://github.com/purpleidea/oh-my-vagrant/blob/master/vagrant/Vagrantfile#L835

It uses a modified version of the hostmanager plugin, since the upstream isn't very responsive.
https://github.com/purpleidea/vagrant-hostmanager/tree/feat/extras

In fact, I'd have to look through this code, but you might be interested in what happens here:

purpleidea/vagrant-hostmanager@f087051

But you'd have to provide a but more info into what's breaking because I'm still too sleepy to think about DNS issues atm ;)

Cheers!

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@purpleidea Ah! So this is fixed in the patched version of vagrant-hostmanager. I'm being amateur was using unmodified version of this plugin. Thanks!

But now I see another curious line in the /etc/hosts file:

[vagrant@omv1 ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

## vagrant-hostmanager-start
192.168.124.100 omv1.example3.com   omv1
192.168.124.3   omv.example3.com    omv
## vagrant-hostmanager-end

I'm using like most basic omv.yaml file, but I don't know what is the 192.168.124.3 omv.example3.com omv line?

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@pschiffe No problem :)

The extra line is a bonus "DNS" entry for a VIP when needed by the cluster... It turns out it's convenient to have that from time to time, so it's a little developer bonus. Since it doesn't usually hurt to have it there, you get it for free... Want to write an FAQ item about it? https://github.com/purpleidea/oh-my-vagrant/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md#usage-and-frequently-asked-questions

Cheers,
James

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I see, thanks.

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Want to write an FAQ item about it?

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I still don't understand it properly. I get that it's not a bug, but that's all. I don't know what VIP means, where it points to and what uses it..

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Peter Schiffer [email protected]
wrote:

I still don't understand it properly. I get that it's not a bug, but
that's all. I don't know what VIP means, where it points to and what uses
it..

VIP means virtual ip. It's an extra IP that is reserved on each host, by
default unused, comes with DNS via /etc/hosts and can be used by the
developer for any purpose they want. That's all.

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