Unknown Host ?

[msentissi]

Hello there

I am installing the ZCS on FC 4 and even if I have all the networking files well setup and the DNS/smtp ports open ? the only thing is the reverse dns lookup ?

can anybody give me a hint ?



Preparing packages for installation...
zimbra-core-3.0.1_GA_160.RHEL4-20060216140433
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
java.net.UnknownHostException: zimbra.myonlinegroupmail.com: zimbra.myonlinegroupmail.com
at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java :1308)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.LC.<clinit>(LC.java:160)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.KnownKey.<clinit>(KnownK ey.java:39)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.LocalConfig.verify(Local Config.java:337)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.LocalConfig.<init>(Local Config.java:185)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.LocalConfig.readConfig(L ocalConfig.java:360)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.LocalConfig.<clinit>(Loc alConfig.java:365)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.Main.main(Main.java:116)
java.net.UnknownHostException: zimbra.myonlinegroupmail.com: zimbra.myonlinegroupmail.com
at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java :1308)
at com.zimbra.cs.localconfig.LC.<clinit>(LC.java:160)
at com.zimbra.cs.util.Zimbra.toolSetup(Zimbra.java:18 6)
at com.zimbra.cs.util.Zimbra.toolSetup(Zimbra.java:18 1)
at com.zimbra.cs.util.Zimbra.toolSetup(Zimbra.java:17 7)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ProvUtil.main(ProvUtil.java: 1409)
ERROR: service.FAILURE (system failure: getDirectContext) (cause: javax.naming.CommunicationException localhost:389)
Loading classes to share ... done.
Rewriting and unlinking classes ... done.
Calculating hash values for String objects .. done.
Calculating fingerprints ... done.
Removing unshareable information ... done.
Moving most read-only objects to shared space at 0x90be0000 ... done.
Moving common symbols to shared space at 0x90f5a520 ... done.
Moving remaining symbols to shared space at 0x91085640 ... done.
Moving string char arrays to shared space at 0x910860d0 ... done.
Moving additional symbols to shared space at 0x91107728 ... done.
Read-only space ends at 0x9115b5e8, 5748200 bytes.
Moving read-write objects to shared space at 0x913e0000 ... done.
Moving String objects to shared space at 0x91959ec0 ... done.
Read-write space ends at 0x91999dc0, 6004160 bytes.
Updating references to shared objects ... done.

Preparing packages for installation...
zimbra-ldap-3.0.1_GA_160.RHEL4-20060216140433
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
Preparing packages for installation...
zimbra-logger-3.0.1_GA_160.RHEL4-20060216140433
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
Preparing packages for installation...
zimbra-mta-3.0.1_GA_160.RHEL4-20060216140433
umount2: No such file or directory
umount: /opt/zimbra/amavisd/tmp: not found
mv: cannot stat `/opt/zimbra/amavisd': No such file or directory
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/perdition-1.17': No such file or directory
Preparing packages for installation...
zimbra-snmp-3.0.1_GA_160.RHEL4-20060216140433
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
Preparing packages for installation...
zimbra-store-3.0.1_GA_160.RHEL4-20060216140433
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host

[marcmac]

You don't have the networking files set up correctly if the system can't determine it's own hostname.

[msentissi]

I type hostname and it works !?

should I set up my MX record to have the hostname in it instead of just the domain ?

Thanks Marcman

[marcmac]

yeah, but is the value returned by hostname in /etc/hosts?

Are the IPs on your interfaces in /etc/hosts?

Is one of your IPs connected to the hostname returned by the hostname command?

[msentissi]

no
I removed my domain line with the lp device to replace it with the localdomain.localhost line for mysql to work.

Should I enter my hostname in there as well ? I have my mail server behind a firewall that does port forwarding so I guess I should put my internal address and my real hostname and .... ?

Thanks a lot for the help

[marcmac]

I can't tell you what values are right for your host.

I can tell you this:

The string that is returned by the hostname command needs to appear in your /etc/hosts file, and it needs to be on a line that starts with an IP address that appears when you run ifconfig -a