Why server is showing "Temporary failure in name resolution" when trying to register it on RHN/RHSM?
Issue
- Unable to register system on Red Hat Network(RHN)
- Error:
Could not contact Red Hat Network (xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com)
rhn_register
command show following error:
An error has occurred:
Temporary failure in name resolution
See /var/log/up2date for more information
- Errors in
/var/log/up2date
[Mon Oct 3 09:09:05 2011] up2date A socket error occurred: (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'), attempt #1
[Mon Oct 3 09:09:11 2011] up2date A socket error occurred: (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'), attempt #2
[Mon Oct 3 09:09:16 2011] up2date A socket error occurred: (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'), attempt #3
[Mon Oct 3 09:09:21 2011] up2date A socket error occurred: (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'), attempt #4
[Mon Oct 3 09:09:26 2011] up2date A socket error occurred: (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'), attempt #5
[Mon Oct 3 09:09:26 2011] up2date Error communicating with server. The message was:
Temporary failure in name resolution
- Errors in
/var/log/RHSM/rhsm.log
file
[WARNING] @certmgr.py:103 - Exception caught while running <subscription_manager.certlib.HealingLib object at 0x84e1410> update
[ERROR] @certmgr.py:104 - (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')
subscription-manager
commands show following error:
Network error, unable to connect to server.
Please see /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log for more information.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL)
- Red Hat Network (RHN)
- Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM)
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