proxies stop working when clients using /etc/hosts entries if upgraded above 1.7.12-10
Environment
Red Hat Network Satellite or Proxy 5.5
Versions 1.7.12-11, 1.7.12-14
Issue
After upgrading the packages:
spacewalk-proxy-broker.noarch
spacewalk-proxy-common.noarch
spacewalk-proxy-management.noarch
spacewalk-proxy-package-manager.noarch
spacewalk-proxy-redirect.noarch
to 1.7.12-11+ the proxies start responding to clients using their /etc/hosts address(es) with 404 errors.
Resolution
Please update to Red Hat Satellite 5.6, available at https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2013:1392
If an upgrade cannot be done, a workaround is to downgrade to 1.7.12-10.
Diagnostic Steps
On the client the scenario looks like:
yum check-update
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-
: manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-x86_64-rhev-agent-6-server. Please verify its path and try again
On the server the issue appears as
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:46 -0400] "POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 200 3097
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:46 -0400] "POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 200 12448
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:46 -0400] "GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-6/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 -
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:46 -0400] "POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 200 3097
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:47 -0400] "GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-6/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 -
- - [13/May/2013:12:25:47 -0400] "POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 200 3097
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:47 -0400] "GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-6/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 -
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:47 -0400] "POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 200 3097
X.X.X.X - - [13/May/2013:12:25:48 -0400] "GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-6/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 -
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