This is my first try with VPC.
I just changed my template to use VPC. Everything was fine when the stack was launched outside of VPC, but now that they are inside VPC, I cannot download my files from S3 during bootup of the instance using cfn-init (Ec2Config) package. Its a Windows box.
I see the following logs in cfn-init logs:
2012-10-11 08:11:40,992 DEBUG Client initialized with endpoint https://cloudformation.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
2012-10-11 08:11:41,523 DEBUG Describing resource LaunchConfigName in stack StackName
2012-10-11 08:12:03,113 ERROR URLError: getaddrinfo returns an empty list
2012-10-11 08:12:03,144 DEBUG Sleeping for 0.921699 seconds before retrying
2012-10-11 08:12:25,109 ERROR URLError: getaddrinfo returns an empty list
2012-10-11 08:12:25,109 DEBUG Sleeping for 1.240427 seconds before retrying
2012-10-11 08:12:47,386 ERROR URLError: getaddrinfo returns an empty list
2012-10-11 08:12:47,386 DEBUG Sleeping for 5.528233 seconds before retrying
2012-10-11 08:13:13,968 ERROR URLError: getaddrinfo returns an empty list
2012-10-11 08:13:13,968 DEBUG Sleeping for 4.688940 seconds before retrying
2012-10-11 08:13:39,677 ERROR URLError: getaddrinfo returns an empty list
I see the following logs in cfn-hup logs :
2012-10-11 08:23:06,550 ERROR Error: could not find main configuation at C:\cfn\cfn-hup.conf
2012-10-11 08:23:06,893 ERROR Error: main section must contain stack option
2012-10-11 08:33:06,089 ERROR Error: could not find main configuation at C:\cfn\cfn-hup.conf
2012-10-11 08:33:06,370 ERROR Error: main section must contain stack option
2012-10-11 08:43:06,533 ERROR Error: could not find main configuation at C:\cfn\cfn-hup.conf
2012-10-11 08:43:06,876 ERROR Error: main section must contain stack option
2012-10-11 08:53:06,119 ERROR Error: could not find main configuation at C:\cfn\cfn-hup.conf
2012-10-11 08:53:06,416 ERROR Error: main section must contain stack option
From the instance I can access the internet via a web browser.
You need to setup a NAT server or assign an elastic IP address to the box otherwise it can’t communicate with the internet.