Hello Martin, > Hostname 'ds389.limbo.local' is valid, but none of the IP addresses > resolve back to ds389.limbo.local > - address 10.30.33.10 resolves to host ds389.jalacloud.local > Error: Could not create directory server instance 'ds389'. > Exiting . . . > Log file is '/tmp/setupyR6ywt.log' > > where ds389 is the hostname, and limbo.local the domain Try to add to your /etc/hosts file: 10.30.33.10 ds389.limbo.local ds389.jalacloud.local I think the keyword to search for on the internet is: fully qualified domain name hope this helps, Timotheus -- 389-users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx