[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 45 Check that install hostname matches the server hostname

[Rob Crittenden]

Jan Cholasta wrote:
> On 6.9.2011 19:49, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1717
>>>
>>> Honza
>>
>> nack, what if there are multiple interfaces and you want IPA to use one
>> (that doesn't happen to be the system hostname one)?
>>
>> rob
>
> Then the user configures the system hostname to match the hostname of
> the interface. Or should we configure it automatically from the install?
>
> Honza
>

We can't dictate which interface matches the hostname. At most we can 
warn about this, but not fail to install.

rob