I'm Stumped, I have not changed anything but noticed that all the services were greyed out for each user in Server Preferences. Some posts led me to the sudo changeip - checkhostname route becasue they said there could be a DNS problem.
I get : "Invalid IP address"
Running SLS 10.6.4
Static IP
using Zoneedit as my DNS nameserverrs
Running DNS on SLS as per Mr. Hoffmans set up instructions.
What can cause this error message? I did not change any settings. Was it the update that did this?
Oh, BTW all services are working properly AFP, Ichat, Ical, Web, Wikis, and Push Notifications. If My IP is in valid why is everything working?
Is there a reason the services are greyed out for the users in server preferences?
Should the outpt of -checkhostname ,Specifcally the Current HostName and DNS HostName be the FQDN of the server, or the Servername as in machinename/computername.
Should they look like:
mydomain.net
or
myserver.mydomain.net
or
myserver
.
Mine are just coming up as "myserver" the last
And...
I don't generally run with Server Preferences, preferring to use Server Admin and Workgroup Manager.
As for what appears to be a question, if you have a server with the host name foo, in domain example.com, then the FQDN would be foo.example.com. and it's that trailing dot (which stands in for the DNS root servers) that makes the particular specification into the FQDN.
[Here are some DNS configuration details|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1436].
Entirely pedantically:
mydomain.net myserver.mydomain.net myserver
None of these are technically an FQDN, and the folks at Dotster Inc have registered mydomain.net.
Lacking actual details on whatever it is you're concerned with, there's nothing further I can provide.
Without details, I can't run DNS checks, and I can't tell what you're doing (or not doing) with your question(s) and your FQDN concerns. I do not know what you're looking at with your FQDN question.
If the DNS domain in use is public-registered, then the botnets and the spammers already have it; it's public. If the DNS is private, then folks outside your firewall can't get at it. (Or if we can, there are other issues at the firewall.) So in either case, obfuscating it doesn't particular advance your request and your question.
As for domain names and IP address assignments, I've learned to
not assume that the IP addresses and names are obfuscated or not; I've encountered folks here that were using IP address blocks assigned to US DoD, and regularly using domain names that were registered to and allocated to other sites.