[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq and invalid hostname

Mon Feb 25 15:49:12 GMT 2013

On 25/02/13 15:27, Tim Watson wrote:
> Why can't you package the .rpm along with the pre-requisites and deal with
> this by having a sequence of actions that run at the install site:
>
> 1. unpack the rpm and install it directly
> 2. unpack the configuration settings/changes and apply them
>
> Or something like that?
>
> Of course, you can override the various locations of things using the advice
> specified in http://rabbitmq.com/relocate.html. You're not going to get far with
> an unresolved hostname.

One way around that would be to set the nodename to contain a hostname 
which resolves everywhere, e.g. 'localhost'. Such a setup won't allow 
clustering of rabbits, but that's impossible anyway without the 
knowledge of hostnames.

Matthias.