Description of problem:

Gluster 3.12.3 on Linux.

Consider the following outputs. None of that makes any sense to me:


[root@node-1:~]# time gluster peer probe status
peer probe: success. Host status port 24007 already in peer list

real  0m10.060s


[root@node-1:~]# time gluster peer status
peer status: failed

real  0m0.051s


[root@node-1:~]# time gluster pool list
pool list: failed

real  0m0.050s


[root@node-1:~]# gluster peer probe 10.0.0.1
peer probe: success. Probe on localhost not needed

[root@node-1:~]# gluster peer probe 10.0.0.2
peer probe: success. Host 10.0.0.2 port 24007 already in peer list


[root@node-1:~]# gluster peer detach status
peer detach: failed: One of the peers is probably down. Check with 'peer status'


[root@node-1:~]# gluster peer status
peer status: failed



First, when I run `gluster peer probe status` (which is not a reasonable command, as it now thinks that `status` is a hostname), why does it say "peer probe: success. Host status port 24007 already in peer list"? That makes no sense, there is no host called "status" in my network.

Next, `gluster peer status` fails; the error message in extremely unhelpful "peer status: failed" as it contains no information on the failure.

Later probes of e.g. `10.0.0.1` suggest that there's already a working "peer list" with some contents, but apparently I have no way at all to list those peers.

When I try to detach the apparently-attached garbage peer called "status", I get told to run `peer status`, but it doesn't work.

What's going on here?

The glusterd log (/var/log/glusterfs/glusterd.log) gives some insight:

[2017-12-09 17:34:21.858454] I [MSGID: 106487] [glusterd-handler.c:1485:__glusterd_handle_cli_list_friends] 0-glusterd: Received cli list req
[2017-12-09 17:34:21.858517] W [dict.c:912:str_to_data] (-->/nix/store/y9qg9jan88wnsszmb1badhyfak2znpz7-glusterfs-3.12.3/lib/glusterfs/3.12.3/xlator/mgmt/glusterd.so(+0x104db4) [0x7f6f54fdadb4] -->/nix/store/y9qg9jan88wnsszmb1badhyfak2znpz7-glusterfs-3.12.3/lib/libglusterfs.so.0(dict_set_str+0x16) [0x7f6f60919be6] -->/nix/store/y9qg9jan88wnsszmb1badhyfak2znpz7-glusterfs-3.12.3/lib/libglusterfs.so.0(str_to_data+0x82) [0x7f6f60918122] ) 0-dict: value is NULL [Invalid argument]
[2017-12-09 17:34:23.103687] E [MSGID: 101075] [common-utils.c:320:gf_resolve_ip6] 0-resolver: getaddrinfo failed (Temporary failure in name resolution)
[2017-12-09 17:34:23.103714] E [name.c:267:af_inet_client_get_remote_sockaddr] 0-management: DNS resolution failed on host status

Looks like the real error is `getaddrinfo failed`, probably some DNS problem on my system.

So:

* Could `gluster peer status` tell me directly about this problem, instead of saying "failed"?
* Why do `gluster peer status` and `gluster pool list` fail if DNS doesn't work? I'd assume if there is a list of hosts, I should be able to view it, any time.
* What's going on with the weird success message of adding a non-existant host?
* What's up with `0-dict: value is NULL [Invalid argument]`?