# Emergency help

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [September 18, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468 "2013-09-18T17:17:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/1 "2013-09-18T17:17:00Z")

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Hey Guys,

My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients can  
connect to chef server and I can’t even access the interface for chef  
anymore. Any help?

–

- Nikhil Shah \*/ System Administrator

[nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)

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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/2 "2013-09-18T17:19:23Z")

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Are your clients referencing an IP address or hostname? Look in your  
client config (/etc/chef/client.rb). Send verbose output of a chef-client  
run so that we can see what is happening.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Nikhil Shah [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com) wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> 
> My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients  
> can connect to chef server and I can't even access the interface for chef  
> anymore. Any help?
> 
> --
> 
> - Nikhil Shah \*/ System Administrator
> 
> [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)
> 
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/3 "2013-09-18T17:25:13Z")

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If you are using DNS: change the A record in DNS to point to the new IP address. Everything should start working again within the next few hours (depending on how long your TTL is). Depending on your setup, some clients may start working again while others will still be failing. You can speed up the process by restarting your DNS server and/or flushing DNS caches.

If you are using the IP address directly, you will have no choice but to go around to each machine and update it.

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-----Original message-----  
From: Nikhil Shah [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)  
Sent: Wednesday 18th September 2013 10:17  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] emergency help

Hey Guys,

My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients can connect to chef server and I can’t even access the interface for chef anymore. Any help?

–  
Nikhil Shah / System Administrator

[nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com) [http://theorchard.com](http://theorchard.com)

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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/4 "2013-09-18T17:29:00Z")

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now what about the chef server itself. I can't seem to access the  
interface. I keep getting a gateway timed out, I tried to  
run chef-server-ctl start to start all of the services

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Kevin Keane Subscription \<  
[subscription@kkeane.com](mailto:subscription@kkeane.com)\> wrote:

> \*\*
> 
> If you are using DNS: change the A record in DNS to point to the new IP  
> address. Everything should start working again within the next few hours  
> (depending on how long your TTL is). Depending on your setup, some clients  
> may start working again while others will still be failing. You can speed  
> up the process by restarting your DNS server and/or flushing DNS caches.
> 
> If you are using the IP address directly, you will have no choice but to  
> go around to each machine and update it.
> 
> Kevin Keane
> 
> The NetTech
> 
> 760-721-8339
> 
> [http://www.4nettech.com](http://www.4nettech.com)
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> Our values: Privacy, Liberty, Justice
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> -----Original message-----  
> _From:_ Nikhil Shah [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)  
> _Sent:_ Wednesday 18th September 2013 10:17  
> _To:_ [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
> _Subject:_ [chef] emergency help
> 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients  
> can connect to chef server and I can't even access the interface for chef  
> anymore. Any help?
> 
> --
> 
> - Nikhil Shah \*/ System Administrator
> 
> [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)
> 
> _The Orchard®_ / [www.theorchard.com](http://www.theorchard.com)
> 
> t (+1) 212.308.5648 / f (+1) 212.201.9203  
> 23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl / New York, NY 10003
> 
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/5 "2013-09-18T17:30:30Z")

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Hey Nikhil,

I'm assuming you have your own private chef server ( of some version ) and a million more guesses and assumptions .....

... tell us a little more about what is the nature of new IP address .... public IP?, private IP? ...

Do you control the IP address or is the "loss" part of a change over do to changing hosting or ??? that was out of your control ....

Was the IP mapping via DNS records to something ... or....

More details will give more room to speculate on remediation or a temporary forwarding the traffic to the right place ( IP address .... )

Security and Mapping of the DNS records are in order....

Terry

* * *

Terry J Fundak  
Systems Engineer  
Network Design and Security Solutions for SMBs  
Tech Support - Client and Server Systems

TJSoftworks  
1834 Chadwick Court  
Santa Rosa, CA 95401  
(707) 849-1000  
(415) 877-1783  
[terry@tjsoftworks.com](mailto:terry@tjsoftworks.com)

On Sep 18, 2013, at 10:17, Nikhil Shah wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> 
> My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients can connect to chef server and I can't even access the interface for chef anymore. Any help?
> 
> --  
> Nikhil Shah / System Administrator
> 
> [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)
> 
> The Orchard® / [www.theorchard.com](http://www.theorchard.com)
> 
> t (+1) 212.308.5648 / f (+1) 212.201.9203  
> 23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl / New York, NY 10003
> 
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> 
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/6 "2013-09-18T17:33:43Z")

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Is this a VM or a physical machine? What happened to the old IP address? If it's a VM you could just attach another virtual NIC and assign the old IP address assuming it isn't being used elsewhere.

If you have console access (assuming you do if you can run commands), make sure to check the routes/iptables to ensure the new IP will allow access.

On Sep 18, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Nikhil Shah [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com) wrote:

> now what about the chef server itself. I can't seem to access the interface. I keep getting a gateway timed out, I tried to run chef-server-ctl start to start all of the services
> 
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Kevin Keane Subscription [subscription@kkeane.com](mailto:subscription@kkeane.com) wrote:
> 
> > If you are using DNS: change the A record in DNS to point to the new IP address. Everything should start working again within the next few hours (depending on how long your TTL is). Depending on your setup, some clients may start working again while others will still be failing. You can speed up the process by restarting your DNS server and/or flushing DNS caches.
> > 
> > If you are using the IP address directly, you will have no choice but to go around to each machine and update it.
> > 
> > Kevin Keane
> > 
> > The NetTech
> > 
> > 760-721-8339
> > 
> > [http://www.4nettech.com](http://www.4nettech.com)
> > 
> > Our values: Privacy, Liberty, Justice
> > 
> > See [https://www.4nettech.com/corp/the-nettech-values.html](https://www.4nettech.com/corp/the-nettech-values.html)
> > 
> > -----Original message-----  
> > From: Nikhil Shah [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)  
> > Sent: Wednesday 18th September 2013 10:17  
> > To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
> > Subject: [chef] emergency help
> > 
> > Hey Guys,
> > 
> > My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients can connect to chef server and I can't even access the interface for chef anymore. Any help?
> > 
> > --  
> > Nikhil Shah / System Administrator
> > 
> > [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)
> > 
> > The Orchard® / [www.theorchard.com](http://www.theorchard.com)
> > 
> > t (+1) 212.308.5648 / f (+1) 212.201.9203  
> > 23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl / New York, NY 10003
> > 
> > The Daily Rind™ / [www.dailyrindblog.com](http://www.dailyrindblog.com)
> > 
> > Facebook / @orchtweets
> > 
> > Privileged And Confidential Communication.
> > 
> > This electronic transmission, and any documents attached hereto, (a) are protected by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (18 USC §§ 2510-2521), (b) may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information, and (c) are for the sole use of the intended recipient named above. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify the sender and delete the electronic message. Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of the information received in error is strictly prohibited
> 
> --  
> Nikhil Shah / System Administrator
> 
> [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)
> 
> The Orchard® / [www.theorchard.com](http://www.theorchard.com)
> 
> t (+1) 212.308.5648 / f (+1) 212.201.9203  
> 23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl / New York, NY 10003
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/7 "2013-09-18T17:35:22Z")

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Actually, I did get it working...It was running off of an ESX server and  
seems like when i restarted the services again, I Was able to log back in.

Thank You!

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Terry J Fundak [terry@tjsoftworks.com](mailto:terry@tjsoftworks.com)wrote:

> Hey Nikhil,
> 
> I'm assuming you have your own private chef server ( of some version ) and  
> a million more guesses and assumptions .....
> 
> ... tell us a little more about what is the nature of new IP address ....  
> public IP?, private IP? ...
> 
> Do you control the IP address or is the "loss" part of a change over do to  
> changing hosting or ??? that was out of your control ....
> 
> Was the IP mapping via DNS records to something ... or....
> 
> More details will give more room to speculate on remediation or a  
> temporary forwarding the traffic to the right place ( IP address .... )
> 
> Security and Mapping of the DNS records are in order....
> 
> Terry
> 
> * * *
> 
> Terry J Fundak  
> Systems Engineer  
> Network Design and Security Solutions for SMBs  
> Tech Support - Client and Server Systems
> 
> TJSoftworks  
> 1834 Chadwick Court  
> Santa Rosa, CA 95401  
> (707) 849-1000  
> (415) 877-1783  
> [terry@tjsoftworks.com](mailto:terry@tjsoftworks.com)
> 
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 10:17, Nikhil Shah wrote:
> 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients  
> can connect to chef server and I can't even access the interface for chef  
> anymore. Any help?
> 
> --
> 
> - Nikhil Shah \*/ System Administrator
> 
> [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com) [http://theorchard.com/](http://theorchard.com/)
> 
> _The Orchard®_ / [www.theorchard.com](http://www.theorchard.com)
> 
> t (+1) 212.308.5648 / f (+1) 212.201.9203  
> 23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl / New York, NY 10003
> 
> The Daily Rind™ / _[www.dailyrindblog.com](http://www.dailyrindblog.com)_ [http://www.dailyrindblog.com/](http://www.dailyrindblog.com/)
> 
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- Nikhil Shah \*/ System Administrator

[nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)

_The Orchard®_ / [www.theorchard.com](http://www.theorchard.com)

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**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/emergency-help/4468/8 "2013-09-18T17:50:10Z")

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“Gateway timed out” means that you have a proxy server (probably a reverse proxy in front of the Chef server), and the proxy server can’t talk to the back end server.

When you restarted all your services, that flushed the DNS caches, and forced reloading with the new information immediately That’s why things started working again for you.

Kevin Keane

The NetTech

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[http://www.4nettech.com](http://www.4nettech.com)

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-----Original message-----  
From: Nikhil Shah [nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com)  
Sent: Wednesday 18th September 2013 10:29  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: emergency help

now what about the chef server itself. I can’t seem to access the interface. I keep getting a gateway timed out, I tried to run chef-server-ctl start to start all of the services

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Kevin Keane Subscription \<[subscription@kkeane.com](mailto:subscription@kkeane.com) [mailto:subscription@kkeane.com](mailto:subscription@kkeane.com) \> wrote:

If you are using DNS: change the A record in DNS to point to the new IP address. Everything should start working again within the next few hours (depending on how long your TTL is). Depending on your setup, some clients may start working again while others will still be failing. You can speed up the process by restarting your DNS server and/or flushing DNS caches.

If you are using the IP address directly, you will have no choice but to go around to each machine and update it.

Kevin Keane

The NetTech

760-721-8339

[http://www.4nettech.com](http://www.4nettech.com) [http://www.4nettech.com](http://www.4nettech.com)

Our values: Privacy, Liberty, Justice

See [https://www.4nettech.com/corp/the-nettech-values.html](https://www.4nettech.com/corp/the-nettech-values.html)

-----Original message-----  
From: Nikhil Shah \<[nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com) [mailto:nshah@theorchard.com](mailto:nshah@theorchard.com) \>  
Sent: Wednesday 18th September 2013 10:17  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com) [mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] emergency help

Hey Guys,

My Chef Server attained a new IP address; therefore, none of my clients can connect to chef server and I can’t even access the interface for chef anymore. Any help?

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Nikhil Shah / System Administrator

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