[Spacewalk-list] FQDN required?

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 01:51:27PM +0100, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
> 
> I just tested our codebase based on 1.7 with full Oracle 11 (not 10
> XE) and without setting up any FQDN (vm on a private network, linux
> as hostname) and Spacewalk seems to work. I haven't tested lot of
> stuff of course.
> 
> I remember that 1.2 code with Oracle 10 XE was very sensitive to the
> FQDN. Was this the reason for
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk to specify
> "A fully qualified domain name (FQDN)" as a requirement or are there
> more pieces that will break without one?

SSL, I'd imagine. And operations via Proxy will become more volatile,
as discussed in nearby thread.

What is the reason not wanting to have FQDN?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat