Unable to subscribe hosts to satellite 6 without DNS.

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Issue

  • Attempting to subscribe hosts to satellite 6 within local environment, system fails with gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution
# subscription-manager register --org="XYZ" --activationkey="Test" --baseurl https://satellite/server/url
Network error, unable to connect to server. Please see /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log for more information.

# tail -20 /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log 
    installed_products=self.installed_mgr.format_for_server())
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 738, in registerConsumer
    return self.conn.request_post(url, params)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 553, in request_post
    return self._request("POST", method, params)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 453, in _request
    conn.request(request_type, handler, body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 914, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 951, in _send_request
    self.endheaders()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 908, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 780, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 739, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py", line 51, in connect
    socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite V 6.x

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