This has proven to be a worthy adversary – “PRVF-4664 : Found inconsistent name resolution entries for SCAN name”. The error has been thrown at the end of a 11.2.0.1 Grid Infrastructure installation, during the cluster verification utility run. Some bloggers I checked recommended workarounds, but I wanted the solution.
Some facts first:
- Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2
- RHEL 5.4 32bit
- named 9.3.2
- GPnP (grid plug and play) enabled
The error message from the log was as follows:
INFO: Checking name resolution setup for "rac-scan.rac.the-playground.de"... INFO: ERROR: INFO: PRVF-4664 : Found inconsistent name resolution entries for SCAN name INFO: "rac-scan.rac.the-playground.de" INFO: Verification of SCAN VIP and Listener setup failed
I have scratched my head, browsed the Internet and came to a metalink note (887471.1) which didn’t help (I didn’t try to resolve the SCAN through /etc/hosts).
So something must have been wrong with the subdomain delegation for DNS. And in fact, once that had been rectified using a combination of rndc, dig and nslookup, the error went away. In short, if your /etc/resolv.conf points to your nameserver (not the GNS server), and you can resolve hostnames such as the scan as part of the subdomain, the error will go away.
I previously blogged about this, you can check the setup here:
Hi Martin,
It looks like this error is because the verification utility always checks the address via the configured DNS, even when it is defined in /etc/hosts and nsswitch.conf is configured for “files dns”.
Cheers
James