Is a DNS server required to run the Scalix server?

[anders.ostling]

Hi
I am trying to install the Community edition for evaluation purposes. I am using a pre-built vmware fedora core 4 server, but when I run the installation script, I get a network error (complains that my hostname does not match the dns name).

I have configired the virtual machine with "scalix" as hostname and a fixed IP address. I also added "scalix" to the /etc/hosts file, but that did not help. So whats the deal? Do I need to have a proper DNS configuratation (forward and reverse lookup working) in order to install scalix?

Thanks
Anders

[anders.ostling]

Let me answer this myself. I found out that I need to have the fqdn _before_ the hostname in the /etc/hosts file (sigh). Now the installation passes the network check.

BRB

Anders

[deuce]

Can yo give me an example of this.

I have SLES 9 and installed Vmware server where I've installed SLES9 to run scalix. I keep GETTING " Hosts file is not configured with FQDN could not find a host name in dns that matches a ip addrsss

[jim mullady]

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.20.20.1 scalixmail.scalix.com scalixmail