[LON-CAPA-admin] not a valid domain

Wed May 28 12:54:49 EDT 2014

While it was a bit brute force, I simply stopped and restarted LON-CAPA from the console on all
my machines.

Mark

On May 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, H. K. Ng wrote:

> I guess the Update Connections on loncapa10 does not do it for all the servers under fsu or fsuK12 domain. loncapa.fsu.edu being a lonbalancer, does not host sessions, so I cannot update via the web. Is /home/httpd/perl/loncron the equivalent command?
> 
> Thanks,
> -hk
> 
> H. K. Ng
> Associate Professor of Physics
> Department of Physics
> Florida State University
> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Commenting the line and updating the connections does not seem to solve the
> > problem.
> 
> You need to follow the procedure described in my earlier e-mail on any
> server which fsuK12 users will use to log-in.
> 
> Currently, I see that connections were updated on loncapa10.fsu.edu
> (your library server) at 09:53am, but have not yet been updated on
> loncapa.fsu.edu, which looks to be your load-balancer server.
> 
> I would recommend commenting out the line:
> ^dalton.chem.sfu.ca
> 
> in /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
> 
> on any server which your fsuK12 users might use for log-in and then
> updating connections on each of those servers via:
> 
> Main Menu -> Status of domain servers -> Update Connections and
> Refresh Status Information
> 
> You can use a # at the start of the line in hosts.tab to comment out
> the line, or you can delete the line entirely.
> 
> Apparently, /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/login.pm was modified on
> loncapa10.fsu.edu (your library server), as there is no textbox
> available to change the domain to something other than fsu.
> 
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Acdemic Consortium
> 
> 
> Quoting "H. K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu>:
> 
> > Commenting the line and updating the connections does not seem to solve the
> > problem.
> >
> > -hk
> >
> > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Stefan Bisitz <st.bisitz at ostfalia.de>wrote:
> >
> >>  > I guess use # for the comment lines.
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 28.05.2014 15:49 schrieb H. K. Ng:
> >> > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu
> >> > <mailto:raeburn at msu.edu>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >     Hi,
> >> >
> >> >      > Sorry ...
> >> >      > Error The domain you provided is not a valid LON-CAPA domain.
> >> >
> >> >     Sorry for the inconvenience.
> >> >
> >> >     This issue has affected most high school domains, including fsuK12
> >> and
> >> >     domains hosted by ohiou and educog.
> >> >
> >> >     The issue here is that when the 5.10 am local time run of loncron ran
> >> >     today 5/28, the dns_domain.tab retrieved by your servers was
> >> >     incomplete, because the data retrieved from the selected the LON-CAPA
> >> >     Academic Consortium "DNS" server was truncated for some reason.
> >> >
> >> >     To fix this issue do the following:
> >> >
> >> >     1. Use a text editor to comment out the following line:
> >> >     ^dalton.chem.sfu.ca <http://dalton.chem.sfu.ca>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I guess use # for the comment lines.
> >> > Do I need to change hosts.tab for all the servers?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > -hk
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >     in /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
> >> >
> >> >     2. Log-in to LON-CAPA on your server and select the Domain
> >> Coordinator
> >> >     role and use:
> >> >
> >> >     Main Menu -> Status of domain servers -> Update Connections and
> >> >     Refresh Status Information
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >      > Any ideas? The domain is listed in the dns_domain.tab file.
> >> >
> >> >     Yes.
> >> >
> >> >     The "static" dns_domain.tab (shipped with a LON-CAPA release) is only
> >> >     consulted in the event that none of the LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> >> >     servers (at SFU, Illinois and MSU are contactable).
> >> >
> >> >     However, in this case they are contactable, so the information
> >> >     received from the first contacted -- SFU -- was used, when loading
> >> the
> >> >     domain tables on your server.
> >> >
> >> >     Unfortunately, the data returned from that file on the SFU server
> >> >     appears to be truncated when a request is made for the data from:
> >> >
> >> >     https://dalton.chem.sfu.ca/adm/dns/domain
> >> >
> >> >     Please let me know if you have any questions.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >     Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >     Stuart Raeburn
> >> >     LON-CAPA Acdemic Consortium
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >     Quoting "H. K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu <mailto:hkng at fsu.edu>>:
> >> >
> >> >      > Something strange seems to be going on with loncapa fsuK12
> >> >     domain. When a
> >> >      > user tries to login under that domain, it gives the message
> >> >      >
> >> >      > Sorry ...
> >> >      > Error The domain you provided is not a valid LON-CAPA domain.
> >> >      >
> >> >      > I tried with on of the msu lite servers and it gives me the same
> >> >     message.
> >> >      >
> >> >      > Any ideas? The domain is listed in the dns_domain.tab file.
> >> >      >
> >> >      > Thanks,
> >> >      > -hk
> >> >      >
> >
> 
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