Installation can not proceeed (Hosts File)

[colours_chris]

Hi there,

I am currently in the process of installing Zimbra (for the first time) on my first Ubuntu server build.

I already have a have a successfully operating Ubuntu (Hardy) server install, so I am now onto setting up the DNS ready for install, following this guide. When running the install, I get this error:

  ERROR: Installation can not proceeed.  Please fix your /etc/hosts file
  to contain:

  [ip] [FQHN] [HN]

  Where [IP] is the ip address of the host,
  [FQHN] is the FULLY QUALIFIED host name, and
  [HN] is the (optional) hostname-only portion

That doesn't surprise me, I did get a little confused in setting up the DNS etc. with all the different IP addresses flying around, so I hope someone can point out my mistake...

/etc/bind/named.conf.options
I added the IP address of the remote name servers in the company data centre (our sysadmin set up the necessary records there)

options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        query-source address * port 53;

        forwarders {
                85.xx.xx.70; 85.xx.xx.74
        };

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
};

/etc/resolv.conf
I added the address of my local router (second line)

search lan
nameserver 192.168.1.254

/etc/bind/named.conf.local

zone "myshop.co.uk"  {
                type master;
                file "/etc/bind/db.myshop.co.uk";
        };

/etc/bind/db.myshop.co.uk

; BIND data file for myshop.co.uk
;
$TTL    604800
@       IN      SOA     mail.myshop.co.uk. admin.myshop.co.uk. (
                         070725         ; Serial
                         604800         ; Refresh
                          86400         ; Retry
                        2419200         ; Expire
                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@       IN      NS      mail
        IN      MX      10 mail
mail    IN      A       192.168.1.65

/etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 localhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
#192.186.1.65 my-server
192.168.1.65 mail.myshop.co.uk mail

Can anyone spare a moment to pinpoint what I've done wrong here?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[vavai]

Hi Chris,

How about if you change your /etc/hosts file into something like this (remove unused entry and ipv6 entry)

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.65 mail.myshop.co.uk mail

[phoenix]

Your hosts file should contain the following lines:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.65 mail.myshop.co.uk mail

Your resolv.conf should contain the fiollowing:

search myshop.co.uk
192.168.1.x

The IP address in that file should be the IP address of your DNS server that you've just set-up.