The IPA Server hostname must not resolve to localhost (127.0.0.1). A routable IP address must be used.

[Peter Bittner]

Hi there,

I'm trying to set up an all-in-one infrastructure system (using Vagrant), which included FreeIPA, libvirt and The Foreman, and some other software. The Idea is that I (locally) bootstrap such a system that helps users to create their definite infrastructure management setup in the end.

Naturally, this entails that FreeIPA is installed on localhost. This, however, doesn't seem to work: The `ipa-server-install` script aborts and issues the following error message:

The IPA Server hostname must not resolve to localhost (127.0.0.1). A routable IP address must be used. [...]

Is there any way to make a local install happen? Or what do I have to do instead?

Any thoughts and ideas highly appreciated,
Peter

[Peter Bittner]

I'm an idiot, sorry. (Wrong mailing list!)

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 27 March 2018, Peter Bittner sent:
> The IPA Server hostname must not resolve to localhost
>
> (127.0.0.1). A routable IP address must be used. [...]
>
> Is there any way to make a local install happen? Or what do I have to
> do instead?

It wants an IP that can be reached by other equipment.  It may be
sufficient to use an address that other equipment on your LAN can
access (like the 192.168.0.0 range of IPs), or you may need a public IP
address.

And if you have a routable IP, your computer's hostname should point to
it, too, not the local loopback IP.  So if your /etc/hosts file looks
like this:

127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain  hostname hostname.localdomain

Move the non-local addresses out of the 127.0.0.1 information line,
more like this kind of thing:

127.0.0.1    localhost   localhost.localdomain
192.168.0.1  mycomputer  mycomputer.example.com