[LON-CAPA-admin] not a valid domain

H. K. Ng hkng at fsu.edu
Wed May 28 13:23:39 EDT 2014


I restarted loncontrol - no effect. However, restarting httpd did the trick.

Thanks all,
-hk


H. K. Ng
Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Mark Lucas <lucasm at ohio.edu> wrote:

> 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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