zeekctl: Error: must run zeekctl on same machine as the manager node 127.0.0.1 vs 127.0.1.1

[initconf]

So, I saw this error when running zeekctl ( and zeekctl cron):

Error: must run zeekctl on same machine as the manager node. The manager node has IP address 
127.0.1.1 and this machine has IP addresses: 128.3.x.y, fe80::3eec:efff:fe28:8c5a, 
fe80::3eec:efff:fe28:8c5b, 127.0.0.1, ::1

Turns out this is some soft Linuxism where linux's netcfg creates this entry in /etc/hosts where

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 fqdn 

This seems to have surfaced quite suddently and automatically on me.

While I changed the node.cfg to explicity use IP address instead of hostname as a workaround, I do see that /usr/local/zeek/lib/broctl/ZeekControl/config.py has hardcoded 127.0.0.1, ::1

Would be useful if zeekctl (aka config.py) handles 127.0.0.0/8 instead

PS: https://serverfault.com/questions/363095/why-does-my-hostname-appear-with-the-address-127-0-1-1-rather-than-127-0-0-1-in

[awelzel]

Moved issue to zeekctl. I suppose we could run the following hunk regardless of what ifconfig / ip address returned and add them to the list:

zeekctl/ZeekControl/config.py

Lines 780 to 787 in 33ff7b2

	localaddrs = ["127.0.0.1", "::1"]
	try:
	addrinfo = socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), None, 0, 0, socket.SOL_TCP)
	except Exception:
	addrinfo = []
	for ai in addrinfo:
	localaddrs.append(ai[4][0])

Over here:

In [3]: [ai[4] for ai in socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), None, 0, 0, socket.SOL_TCP)]
Out[3]: [('127.0.1.1', 0)]