Cannot start zimbra (fresh ubuntu 8.04 installation)

[sjpapa]

Hello,
read through the thread, similar threads did not solve my issue:

I get:
Host localhost
Unable to determine enabled services from ldap.
Unable to determine enabled services. Cache is out of date or doesn't exist.

>dig mail.server.com mx
does not have an answer section, even though the ISP claims its set properly,

>dig mail.server.com any has a proper answer section with the ip address.

I couldnt figure out the fqdn dig? How should my hosts file look like? resolv.conf is correct: it points to the two DNS name servers

Can you please help a novice getting booted?

[uxbod]

Welcome to the forums

If you server is on a private IP behind a firewall/router you will need to setup a Wiki :: Split DNS architecture. If you would post the following aswell we shall be able to help better

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig yourdomain mx
dig yourdomain any
host `hostname` <- note backticks and not single quotes (type exactly)

[sjpapa]

zimbra@SJPbuntu:~/logger$ dig mail.sip.com.gr any

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> mail.sip.com.gr any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63180
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.sip.com.gr. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.sip.com.gr. 82880 IN A 87.203.234.82

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sip.com.gr. 78467 IN NS ns1.otenet.gr.
sip.com.gr. 78467 IN NS ns2.otenet.gr.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.otenet.gr. 67021 IN A 195.170.0.2
ns2.otenet.gr. 55179 IN A 195.170.2.1

;; Query time: 12 msec
;; SERVER: 195.170.0.1#53(195.170.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue May 19 14:39:08 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 124

zimbra@SJPbuntu:~/logger$ host mail.sip.com.gr
mail.sip.com.gr has address 87.203.234.82
sjpapa@SJPbuntu:/etc$ cat hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.4.0.31 FQDN SJPbuntu
10.4.0.31 mail.sip.com.gr mailserver

sjpapa@SJPbuntu:/etc$ dig mail.sip.com.gr mx

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> mail.sip.com.gr mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52131
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.sip.com.gr. IN MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sip.com.gr. 118 IN SOA ns1.otenet.gr. hostmaster.ns1.otenet.gr. 2009051823 10800 3600 1814400 86400

;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 195.170.0.1#53(195.170.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue May 19 14:46:52 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 91

[uxbod]

host `hostname`

do not replace hostname with your servername! Let the command work it out instead.

[sjpapa]

host `hostname` yields:
Host SJPbuntu not found 3(NXDOMAIN)

[uxbod]

Your hostname does not match what you have defined in /etc/hosts ! You need to resolve that first so check /etc/hostname.

[jpbuse]

Originally Posted by uxbod

Welcome to the forums

If you server is on a private IP behind a firewall/router you will need to setup a Wiki :: Split DNS architecture.

Apologies for thread jacking here... does the split DNS still apply if the firewall does DNS doctoring? IE: on a Cisco PIX a static translation would look like

static (dmz,outside) 172.20.1.10 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.255 dns

providing the proper DNS lookup depending whether you are on the outside or inside.

[sjpapa]

set hostname= local machine name ; [not the public name]

[sjpapa]

oops Wiki DNS seems a must,
as my NAT is not enough, so I have to start diggin.. Thxs for the hint!