OpenStack Compute (nova)

DNS for VMs

Asked by James Cook

Hi
Att the University of Derby, we are running a multi node Openstack install running Diablo on top of Ubuntu Maverick.
Is there a way to set a custom name server for our VMs?
The VMs are using novalocal as the domain / search, with the vms own local ip as the address of the nameserver . Is there a way to use our own DNS box for the VMs?
As a the moment my VMs cannot ping by hostname so I cannot run apt-get on any of them, if I manually add our DNS settings this works but resolv.conf reverts back to novalocal after a minute or two.
We are running Vlan networking.
Thanks James

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koolhead17 (koolhead17) said : 		#1

See if using cloud-init helps.

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James Cook (j-cook-l) said : 		#2

Thanks Koolhead17,
I assumed the VMs weren't getting onto the internet because of a DNS error, but checked my nova.conf and realised I had --routing_source set to the internal IP.
I will look at cloud-innit for my DNS error though as we would still prefer the VMs to be on our DNS.

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