Puppet/Facter “Could not retrieve fact fqdn”: How to fix or circumvent?

Question

I\'m learning about puppet and trying to experiment with it on a VM at home. I\'m not using a puppet server yet, just running things locally. It works okay, but every time I

Answer 1

append this line into /etc/resolv.conf

domain abc.com

run facter fqdn again

Fqdn requires domain name , which maybe missing in your freshly installed ubu12