[BUG] minion: failed to resolve address 192.168.1.7: host name lookup failure

[Dmitry-N-Medvedev]

Description

1. a salt_master is started locally ( 192.168.1.7 ); shows no errors in the /var/log/salt/master;
2. a salt_minion is started locally ( 192.168.1.7 ); the /var/log/salt/minion file has precisely two records as following:

radius ~ # tail -n 100 -f /var/log/salt/minion
2025-03-27 13:27:21,754 [salt.modules.network                                        :284 ][ERROR   ][57705] Failed to resolve address 192.168.1.7: [Errno 2] Host name lookup failure
2025-03-27 13:27:22,222 [salt.modules.network                                        :284 ][ERROR   ][57705] Failed to resolve address 192.168.1.7: [Errno 2] Host name lookup failure

Setup

// /usr/local/etc/salt/master

default_include: master.d/*.conf
ipv6: False
user: root
enable_ssh_minions: False
pidfile: /var/run/salt-master.pid
conf_file: /usr/local/etc/salt/master
pki_dir: /usr/local/etc/salt/pki/master
cachedir: /var/cache/salt/master
verify_env: True
file_roots:
  base:
    - /usr/local/etc/salt/states

// /usr/local/etc/salt/master.d/network.conf

interface: 192.168.1.7
ret_port: 4506
publish_port: 4505

// /usr/local/etc/satl/master.d/properties.conf

file_recv: True

// /usr/local/etc/salt/minion

master_port: 4506
user: root
pidfile: /var/run/salt-minion.pid
conf_file: /usr/local/etc/salt/minion
pki_dir: /usr/local/etc/salt/pki/minion
grains:
  roles:
    - mini
  deployment: eosander
  cabinet: 0
cachedir: /var/cache/salt/minion
verify_env: True
sock_dir: /var/run/salt/minion
enable_fqdns_grains: True
enable_gpu_grains: True
color: True
strip_colors: False

// /usr/local/etc/salt/minion.d/id.conf
id: minion-192.168.1.7

// /usr/local/etc/salt/master.conf
master: 192.168.1.7

Please be as specific as possible and give set-up details.

• on-prem machine
• VM (Virtualbox, KVM, etc. please specify)
• VM running on a cloud service, please be explicit and add details
• container (Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, etc. please specify)
• or a combination, please be explicit
• jails if it is FreeBSD
• classic packaging
• onedir packaging
• used bootstrap to install

Steps to Reproduce the behavior

radius ~ # cat /var/log/salt/minion
2025-03-27 13:27:21,754 [salt.modules.network                                        :284 ][ERROR   ][57705] Failed to resolve address 192.168.1.7: [Errno 2] Host name lookup failure
2025-03-27 13:27:22,222 [salt.modules.network                                        :284 ][ERROR   ][57705] Failed to resolve address 192.168.1.7: [Errno 2] Host name lookup failure

Expected behavior
the host name look up failure should not occur.

Screenshots
none

Versions Report

salt --versions-report

(Provided by running salt --versions-report. Please also mention any differences in master/minion versions.)

radius ~ # salt --versions-report
Salt Version:
          Salt: 3006.8

Python Version:
        Python: 3.11.11 (main, Jan  7 2025, 01:12:50) [Clang 18.1.5 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-18.1.5-0-g617a15

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: Not Installed
      cherrypy: Not Installed
      dateutil: Not Installed
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.4
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.3.0
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.1.0
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 24.2
     pycparser: Not Installed
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.21.0
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: Not Installed
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 25.0.2
        relenv: Not Installed
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: Not Installed
       Tornado: 4.5.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.5

System Versions:
          dist: freebsd 14.2
        locale: utf-8
       machine: amd64
       release: 14.2-RELEASE-p1
        system: FreeBSD
       version: FreeBSD 14.2

PASTE HERE

Additional context
none.

[rjc]

 // /usr/local/etc/satl/master.d/properties.conf

The above looks like a typo, but is the below one also a typo, or have you created that file:

// /usr/local/etc/salt/master.conf

if the latter, then it won't work.

Either way, you probably meant:

 /usr/local/etc/salt/minion.d/master.conf