Fqdn and Chef Server

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Hi!

At work we want to setup a Chef server but we don’t have DNS servers
that we can touch and so we work with IP addresses. Can the Chef
server work with an IP address instead of a fqdn?

Thanks,

–
David Gil Oliva

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Hi David ,

         yes,it is possible to use ip address without use of fqdn name and setup your chef server.

Thanks,
indra.

From: David Gil dgilo@aemet.es
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Sent: Friday, 23 May 2014 2:03 PM
Subject: [chef] fqdn and Chef Server

Hi!

At work we want to setup a Chef server but we don’t have DNS servers
that we can touch and so we work with IP addresses. Can the Chef
server work with an IP address instead of a fqdn?

Thanks,

–
David Gil Oliva

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I’d actually recommend using IP’s for the chef server, in general. If your DNS is managed from chef, and accidentally fails due to a misconfiguration, it can be very awkward to get chef-client to run on the messed up DNS server to clear the problem without this.

–
Nico Kadel-Garcia
Senior Systems Consultant
Email: nkadelgarcia-consultant@scholastic.com
Cell Phone: +1.339.368.2428

From: Indra k [mailto:indra.k@cloudenablers.com]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 6:25 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: fqdn and Chef Server

Hi David ,

         yes,it is possible to use ip address without use of fqdn name and setup your chef server.

Thanks,
indra.

From: David Gil <dgilo@aemet.esmailto:dgilo@aemet.es>
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Sent: Friday, 23 May 2014 2:03 PM
Subject: [chef] fqdn and Chef Server

Hi!

At work we want to setup a Chef server but we don’t have DNS servers
that we can touch and so we work with IP addresses. Can the Chef
server work with an IP address instead of a fqdn?

Thanks,

–
David Gil Oliva