Error connecting to server at 'https://<my-vCenter_hostname>/sdk/webService': Bad hostname

[slayedbylucifer]

Hello,

This a newby question so must be an easier one for most of you to answer. I am learning perl SDK for vSphere 5. I have written a simple script to get the list of VMs on a perticular datastore. This is the command I run:

# perl test.pl --server <my_vCenter_hostname> --username <username> --datacenter <datacenter_name>

but my script fails right in the beginning as below:

Enter password:

Error connecting to server at 'https://<my_vCetner>/sdk/webService': Bad hostname

If I try to access https://<my_vCetner>/sdk/webService, I get a blank page. So Could you help me udnerstand what is going wrong here?

I am not specifying the whole URL anywhere in the scipt. I am just passing the hostsname of my vCetner as one of hte parameters.

It is quite evident that this is my 1st perl script in vSphere SDK

Many thnaks.

[slayedbylucifer]

so the  hostname I was using was alias to the vCenter. I used the actual hostname of the vCetner and it worked.

i need to see why DNS is failing on the alias.

Thnaks.