You manage two Vault dusters: “vaultduster1.acme.corp” and “vaultduster2.acme.corp”. You want to write a secret to the first Vaultcluster vaultcluster1.acme.corp and run vault kv put secret/foo value=‘bar’. The command times out and the error references the Vault cluster, “vaultcluster2.acme.corp”.

You run the command again with the following address flag:

vault kv put -address=‘https://vaultcluster1.acme.corp’ secret/foo value=‘bar’

The command completes successfully. You find that the terminal session defines the environment variable VAULT_ADDR=‘https://vaultcluster2.acxe.corp:8200’

Why was the second attempt successful?