Change IP addresses

[joako]

If I want to change the IP address of the Scalix server would there be any issues I should be aware of?

[jaime.pinto]

http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... s/ChangeIP

[joako]

Yes my favorite Wiki page!

So I want to be VERY cautious, I did this:

1) Change main server IP (eth0) to new address, without applying settings
2) Add old main IP as eth0:oldmn
3) Apply settings
4) Stop all scalix-related services, start all scalix-related services

Everything works fine mail comes in and out, outgoing mail is coming from the new IP address **BUT** SAC logins broke. Res server says

RES:Not Okay - Not initialized

I also notice that even when the server works fine but it looks up its hostname thousands and thousands of times. In the last 7 days 23,678 times. I know the mail gets routed about twice in sendmail is there any way to do this routing by IP address also so that IP address will show in the headers instead?

[kanderson]

Rerun the installer and reconfigure SAC. That's easier and faster than trying to resolve problems looking through log files and stuff. Especially after an IP address change.

What makes you say that mail gets routed twice? Scalix really doesn't use an IP address for routing, so no, you can't change that. We should be able to fix it so that everything works correctly though...

Kev.

[joako]

Yay!

Support of SuSE 10.1 is dropped.

How to transfer to another 10.1 machine, format original with 10.2 and migrate back?

[kanderson]

This issue is a PITA and will never end. I'd STRONGLY recommend that you either move to CentOS, RHEL or SLES.

Don't go back to 10.2. Or you'll be going through this whole process again when 11.3 comes out (maybe you'll be OK until 11.4, but it will happen again, regularly)

If you search in the forums, you'll see many others have also had this concern, and it has been covered many times before.

Kev