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Could someone help me with a standard DNS configuration and hosts. I am running RedHat Enterprise 3, ScalxV11.
When running installation, it fails on network (FQDN)

host= mtech-mail
iIp address static = 172.31.159.8

Thanks for any help ?

Darwin,
the default entry work fine if you have installing single server setup . Just want to cross check that please make sure you have reverse DNS lookup work fine for that hostname. The scalix use the name of the OS hostname as the name of the scalix server. So please make sure that you can properly resovle the ip address assign for the machine.
Please check and let me know the installer log's error, it might be useful to workaround with the error logs of installer.

Hope this help

2006-12-18 17:24:57,273 INFO Initializing Scalix Installer version 11.0.0.637
2006-12-18 17:24:57,402 INFO Platform is: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7) on i386 : supported.
2006-12-18 17:24:57,403 INFO Starting Scalix Installer in CLI mode
2006-12-18 17:24:57,546 INFO Current locale is and default is en_ZA
2006-12-18 17:24:59,181 INFO Packages installed: {}
2006-12-18 17:25:01,241 INFO Obsolete packages installed: {}
2006-12-18 17:25:09,601 INFO Operation passed: OS release check Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7)
2006-12-18 17:25:09,602 INFO Operation passed: Memory check 1025368
2006-12-18 17:25:09,603 INFO Operation passed: Disk space check 201016116
2006-12-18 17:25:09,636 INFO Tomcat was running when we started: 0
2006-12-18 17:25:11,639 INFO Searching /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server for relevant Scalix packages
2006-12-18 17:25:11,642 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-tomcat-5.5.16-137.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,644 WARNING File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-tomcat-connector-11.0.0.127-1.rhel3.x86_64.rpm is not for this platform
2006-12-18 17:25:11,644 WARNING File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-tomcat-connector-11.0.0.127-1.rhel3.x86_64.rpm is not for this platform
2006-12-18 17:25:11,645 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-mobile-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,646 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-res-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,647 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-platform-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,648 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-server-11.0.0.417-1.rhel3.i386.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,649 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-sis-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,650 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-tomcat-connector-11.0.0.127-1.rhel3.i386.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,651 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-sac-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,651 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-swa-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:11,652 INFO File /tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-postgres-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm is a Scalix file, for this platform and valid version
2006-12-18 17:25:17,505 INFO Components selected to install: {'scalix-sis': ['11.0.0.637-1', '6720076', 'noarch', 'linux', '1', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-sis-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm'], 'scalix-res': ['11.0.0.637-1', '1142723', 'noarch', 'linux', '1', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-res-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm'], 'scalix-server': ['11.0.0.417-1.rhel3', '50736391', 'i386', 'linux', '1.rhel3', 'RHEL3', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-server-11.0.0.417-1.rhel3.i386.rpm'], 'scalix-tomcat-connector': ['11.0.0.127-1.rhel3', '205693', 'i386', 'linux', '1.rhel3', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-tomcat-connector-11.0.0.127-1.rhel3.i386.rpm'], 'scalix-platform': ['11.0.0.637-1', '6791048', 'noarch', 'linux', '1', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-platform-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm'], 'scalix-sac': ['11.0.0.637-1', '9359534', 'noarch', 'linux', '1', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-sac-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm'], 'scalix-mobile': ['11.0.0.637-1', '2990540', 'noarch', 'linux', '1', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-mobile-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm'], 'scalix-swa': ['11.0.0.637-1', '3917616', 'noarch', 'linux', '1', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-swa-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm'], 'scalix-tomcat': ['5.5.16-137', '4744820', 'noarch', 'linux', '137', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-tomcat-5.5.16-137.noarch.rpm'], 'scalix-postgres': ['11.0.0.637-1', '13411', 'noarch', 'linux', '1', '(none)', '(none)', '/tmp/scalix-11.0.0-RC2/software/scalix_server/scalix-postgres-11.0.0.637-1.noarch.rpm']}
2006-12-18 17:25:17,505 INFO Components to upgrade: {}
2006-12-18 17:25:17,506 INFO System check start
2006-12-18 17:25:17,514 INFO No command selinuxenabled found on system, SELinux is not installed
2006-12-18 17:25:17,515 INFO Operation passed: Environment check passed.
2006-12-18 17:25:17,516 INFO Operation passed: Filesystem check passed.
2006-12-18 17:25:17,523 ERROR Operation failed: Network check failed -- Hosts file is not configured with fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
2006-12-18 17:25:17,534 ERROR Operation failed: Network check failed -- Invalid FQDN 'mtech-mail'
2006-12-18 17:25:17,583 INFO Network interface is eth0
2006-12-18 17:25:20,056 INFO Apache 2.x appears to be installed.
2006-12-18 17:25:20,056 INFO Operation passed: Dependency check passed.
2006-12-18 17:25:20,556 INFO Operation passed: Running services check passed.
2006-12-18 17:25:20,557 INFO System check end
2006-12-18 17:25:20,558 INFO System check result: 2
2006-12-18 17:25:25,856 INFO Ending CLI Scalix Installer - interrupted by user

//
// named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver
//

options {
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

zone "localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "localdomain.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "25n-addr.arpa5.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.broadcast";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.zero";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "8.159.31.172.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "mtech-mail";
allow-update { none; };
};

include "/etc/rndc.key";
#mtech-mail IN A 172.31.159.8

Please post the contents of /etc/hosts and the output from nslookup mtech-mail followed by nslookup x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is the IP address returned by the first nslookup command.

Cheers

Dave

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
#127.0.0.1 localhost.zone
127.0.0.1 localhost
172.31.159.8 mtech-mail

[root@mtech-mail root]# nslookup mtech-mail
Server: 172.31.159.3
Address: 172.31.159.3#53

** server can't find mtech-mail: SERVFAIL

[root@mtech-mail root]# nslookup 172.31.159.8
Server: 172.31.159.3
Address: 172.31.159.3#53

** server can't find 8.159.31.172.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

[root@mtech-mail root]#

You don't have the server mtech-mail listed on your DNS server (172.31.159.3) Nor do you have the rDNS entry there either (meaning the nslookup of the IP failed too).

Kev.

Can you help me ?