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hello scalixers,
i am using scalix community edition on a "multihomed" machine with a hostname hostname.my.lan when creating an object (user/group) with the SAC the omHostFqdn attribute is set to "hostname-eth0.my.lan". this causes a lot of problems within the SAC (no lists are shown, editing objects doesn´t work,etc...). also the default users/groups have been set with this "wrong" attribute. i can correct this via changing the attribute in ldap but a configurable solution would be "nice" :D
please note that within the DNS for my.lan there are the following entries:
hostname-eth0.my.lan A 1.2.3.4
hostname-eth1.my.lan A 1.2.4.4
hostname.my.lan CNAME hostname-eth0.my.lan

how is the attribute content determined ? is there a way to control the creation of the attribute within scalix ? do i have to change the DNS ?
any help is appreciated :D

thank you in advance !

at this point, there is no way inside scalix to control what's being put in the attribute, so changing /etc/hosts or dns is the way to go.

what needs to be consistent is...

output of hostname command is resolvable against a ip address that's on one of the interfaces.

reverse resolve of this ip address resolves back to the FQDN of the host.

this is also, btw., how by RFC recommendation, an IP host should be setup anyway.

the next version of scalix will include better support for "virtual hostnames", mostly in the context of clustering.

.. florian.