dns resolition failure occured, let's say within 04:02:10-04:02:20 dnsmasq log showed a lot of incoming SIGTERMs http://paste.openstack.org/show/256285/ looks like 2 SIGTERMS within 2 secs could lead to dns outage Jun 1 04:02:12 dnsmasq[1994]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM Jun 1 04:02:14 dnsmasq[2103]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM Jun 1 04:02:20 dnsmasq[2132]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM cobbler produced warning with error http://paste.openstack.org/show/256283/ looks like those warning/errors in cobbler trigger dnsmasq restart. I've searched on '$tCD3X7ji' and found it in ./node-4.test.domain.local/root/anaconda-ks.cfg:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-4.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-4.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:sshpw --username root --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33k2jjklHSDG2hg2234kJHESJ3hwhsjHshSJshHSJSh333je34DHJHDr4je4AMP85NxQe61 ./node-5.test.domain.local/root/anaconda-ks.cfg:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-5.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-5.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:sshpw --username root --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33k2jjklHSDG2hg2234kJHESJ3hwhsjHshSJshHSJSh333je34DHJHDr4je4AMP85NxQe61 ./node-3.test.domain.local/root/anaconda-ks.cfg:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-3.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-3.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:sshpw --username root --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33k2jjklHSDG2hg2234kJHESJ3hwhsjHshSJshHSJSh333je34DHJHDr4je4AMP85NxQe61 ./node-2.test.domain.local/root/anaconda-ks.cfg:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-2.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-2.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:sshpw --username root --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33k2jjklHSDG2hg2234kJHESJ3hwhsjHshSJshHSJSh333je34DHJHDr4je4AMP85NxQe61 ./node-1.test.domain.local/root/anaconda-ks.cfg:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-1.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:rootpw --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33b4TpQAjRiCeDZx0jmgMhDYhfB9KuGfqO9OcMaKyUxnGGWslEDQ4HxTw7vcAMP85NxQe61 ./node-1.test.domain.local/root/cobbler.ks:sshpw --username root --iscrypted $6$tCD3X7ji$1urw6qEMDkVxOkD33k2jjklHSDG2hg2234kJHESJ3hwhsjHshSJshHSJSh333je34DHJHDr4je4AMP85NxQe61 So it's cobbler issue. Finally triaged. fuel has hardcoded root password in kickstart template for cobbler. Cobbler accidentally tries to render template from a part of password recognizing password salt $tCD3X7ji as a valid template. Under certain circumstances it could lead to provisioning failure totally depending on how often cobbler renders kickstart files for nodes in a short period of time.