Topic: [SOLVED] Hostnames and addresses panel

[DanB35]

My production SME server runs SME 9.1, migrated from 9.0, migrated from 8.something, migrated from 7.something, etc., probably going back to 3.something.  There's doubtless a lot of cruft in the config database.  It's configured with four domains--the primary and three additional domains (one of which is a subdomain on the primary domain).

When I go to the Hostnames and addresses panel, I get a list of "Current list of hostnames for $PRIMARY_DOMAIN", containing a number of aliases for the SME server itself, as well as entries for a number of other machines on my LAN.  And that's it.  It doesn't show hostnames for any other domain.  When I click the "Add hostname" button, I get the screen to create/modify the hostname, and it contains a dropdown for the domain, but the only item in that dropdown is the primary domain.  I don't appear to have any way to add, remove, or change a hostname on any other domain.

My test server (also running SME 9.1, but as a clean install with no migration from previous versions) behaves quite differently.  When I go to the Hostnames and addresses panel there, I first see the list of hostnames for the primary domain, followed by a list of hostnames for the secondary domain.  I can add, remove, and modify those entries independently.

I expect this is somehow related to cruft in the database, but how to track it down?

[Stefano]

what are the dns settings for each domain?

[DanB35]

Aha!  That was the difference.  The added domains were set (by default) to use Internet DNS servers.  When I set them to resolve locally, they appeared in the Hostnames panel and I can adjust them as needed.  Thanks!

This leads to the question, though, of whether "Internet DNS Servers" is a suitable default, especially when the page has the note that "The default will be correct for most networks."