empty ansible_domain from setup

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I am running ansible 1.9.3 under FreeBSD 10.2 to manage other FreeBSD hosts.

I am trying to figure out why one host comes back with ansible_domain undefined, when it is fine for another host.

AFAIK both hosts are configured identically.

Can someone tell me how the value for this is determined?

Thanks!

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this is the python code that figures out the domain:
`
  self.facts['fqdn'] = socket.getfqdn()
...
  self.facts['domain'] = '.'.join(self.facts['fqdn'].split('.')[1:])
`
^ basically splits from fqdn after the first . , so "www.example.com"
would return "example.com"

socket is a core python library and the method is explained here (with
some jumps) https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket.getfqdn

Hope this helps narrow it down.

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Thanks Brian, that’s a great place to start. I will see where that take me.

-Markham

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SOLVED!

Also found this post helpful: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ansible-project/z27N4scKS-I/UfWyVk8Mug8J

It was an ordering issue within the /etc/hosts file.
I have some local aliasing setup as an artifact of legacy systems, and socket.getfqdn resolves these in order, where ansible grabs the first element for ansible_fqdn and ansible_domain.

192.0.2.2 localnickname 192.0.2.2 hostname.example.com hostname

These needed to be reversed to get the expected results