Hi All -
I've been recently working on a number of PXE booted installs of ESX. I have a kickstart file that has a %post section that performs a few actions, then sends a simple GET request to a web server using wget. The %post stuff works great in 5.5 Update 3, 6.0 Update 2, and 6.0 Update 3. When I try it with 6.5.0a (4887370) everything works great EXCEPT the wget call. Wget times out (can't connect to remote host (x.x.x.x): Connection timed out.
- The remote host is the exact same host that ESXi booted and installed off of without issue (via HTTP).
- The interface (vmnic0/vmk0) is up and has a valid IP address.
- The HTTP host responds normally to pings.
- The HTTP host responds normally to requests from other systems on the same network.
The HTTP server is on port 8080, is there something funky w/ 6.5 that "blocks" outgoing traffic on port 8080? I'm stumped!!
Thanks in advance for any input!