RE: Sysname () is already in database

Hello,

I am demoing out the NAV appliance and we have a number of physical and virtual hosts that do not have reverse DNS entries available, resolution of the IPs belonging to the hosts results in unknown.domainname.tld.

When attempting to add multiple hosts to the NAV seed database, I receive errors when NAV attempts to resolve the DNS name of the host, claiming that the host already exists, despite all unique information with the exception of the failed resolution of the fqdn.

Is there a work-around so that NAV does not lookup the DNS name of said devices?

Maybe a list in /etc/hosts could work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)