problem with fully qualified domain name and apache

nephish · 04-08-2008, 04:32 PM

hey there all
i am running ubuntu linux 7.10 and using apache2 with virt hosting.
everytime i restart apache, i get this error.

Code:

Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using mysdomian.com for ServerName

this is what i have in /etc/hosts

Code:

127.0.0.1 mybox.mydomain.com mybox localhost
10.10.10.5 mybox.mydomain.com mybox
127.0.0.1 localhost mydomain.com

i am on a network behind a router, but still don't think that that has anything to do with this,.

any tips would be much appreciated

dkm999 · 04-08-2008, 09:13 PM

It is likely that Apache can look up its host name using /etc/hosts; the problem may be that it cannot check that the address given (10.10.10.5) corresponds to the name it thinks it should use. I have never relied exclusively on /etc/hosts to handle name resolution; instead, I recommend a simple DNS nameserver running on your 10.10.10.x network somewhere, that will respond to both forward and reverse lookups. This should make this complaint go away.

nephish · 04-09-2008, 12:26 AM

Hey thanks for that,
there are other reasons that i really should set up our own dns.
Thanks for your time