problem with DNS during installation...please help

[rrsd]

Originally Posted by bobby

so zimbra.foo.example is the hostname? is there an mx record for zimbra.foo.example, i.e. are you planning to host mail for that domain? you don't have to have a mail domain for the hostname if you don't want. otherwise i can't see any problems

The issue gets more sticky the deeper one digs. I'm already hosting mail for that domain using an aged postfix machine. There is an MX entry for mail.foo.example, and when the zimbra server is up and stable and I have mailboxes moved over to it, I'll give it the IP address assigned to mail.foo.example and take the old machine offline. But there is no MX entry for zimbra.foo.example.

[bobby]

that sounds like a plan. the only problem i can see is that i don't think changing the hostname of the zimbra machine is trivial. if you really want the zimbra machine to be known as mail (like for matching up reverse dns) you should give it that name to begin with.

[rrsd]

Argh. Reverting to snapshot. God, I love vmware sometimes!