Some of my minions are not responsive, for various reasons. They respond, however, in different ways:
sent222:
Minion did not return. [No response]
sent036:
Minion did not return. [Not connected]
What is the difference between No response and Not connected?
I ran a tcpdump against both of these hosts, but there is no communication. I believe that this is expected because the master waits for the minion to connect - thus the surprising difference in the error message
Kind of salt-internal question.
Simplifying:
Not connected:
If the minion is known to salt-master e.g. you can see minion under:salt-run cache.list minions and the minion process is down
No response:
If the minion is not known to salt-master
The definition of known to salt-master is interesting.
You can have minions that were connected. Thus you think that they will appear as Not connected but from different reasons when they are be wiped from salt-master cache - you will see them as No response
In general, the Github Issues for SaltStack is the best place for salt related questions