Hi, new user here. I am getting Telegraf set up on a Raspberry Pi and I would like to connect to an InfluxDB server on the local network using a “.local” address. This is all pretty unfamiliar to me and I am just learning, but I will describe the problem as best I can. The InfluxDB server is runnin…

@David_Ford Have you tried adding a line to your /etc/hosts file? That works for me in most cases. Welcome to InfluxDB btw!

If you are using our official arm builds, I expect that the cgo resolver cannot be used since they were cross compiled. You could try using the GODEBUG options from the go documentation you linked to confirm this. Perhaps the dns resolution for ping is using a different method than go supports. C…

Thanks @jackzampolin and @daniel ! Good ideas. I am using avahi/mDNS to resolve the host and now I see that is very different from the normal lookup services used by many commands. Troubleshooting this problem has allowed me to learn a lot more about these zero-config services that allow for easy l…

Thanks for update @David_Ford . If you were to rebuild Telegraf on your pi it should enable the cgo resolver and I think it will work. Python script sounds like it might do the job as well. Good luck with your project.

@daniel I had a little bit more time just now and did as you suggested and built Telegraf on the pi. It works just as you thought it might, resolving the mDNS name without any difficulty. Thanks!

Thanks for reporting back, we will have to keep an eye out for this as it affects all of our none amd64 linux builds.

Hi all, I face the same problem that David had. I work on an IoT project involving multiple Pi’s. I configure all of them using ansible in order to manage “configuration as code”, so I stick to standard distribution of packages. Since the number of Pi’s can grow, I use zeroconfig/mDNS/avahi service…

Hi @daniel . Thanks for the answer. Too bad … I’ll have to find another the solution. Have a good day. Best,

No posts for 6.5 years, obviously this is a pretty niche problem! But now it’s my problem: I’ve got Mac, Synology and Linux servers all using zeroconf out of the box and I’ll have to do it all with static IPs because Telegraf wont resolve addresses on the linuxes (that the rest of Linux is quite hap…

Telegraf DNS issue with .local address

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daniel July 5, 2017, 7:37pm 9

@ThierryGandilhon We will probably not be able to do this for some time since it would require substantial changes to our build scripts.

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Telegraf DNS issue with .local address

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