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I am setting up a dedicated mysql box, and I am not assigning any domain name to it, as it will be a backend server.

Can I set its ip address as its fully qualified hostname?

I am installing virtualmin and it requires a fully qualified hostname.

giorgio79
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IP addresses are not any kind of hostname, fully-qualified or otherwise. But the software might accept the address regardless. Or you could take all of 15 seconds and add an entry to /etc/hosts...

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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An FQDN is the full domain name localized into the DNS hierarchy, for instance mysql-backend.example.lan.

An IP address is not a FQDN.

If your software requires you a FQDN please evaluate to add a record to your DNS server cache or to /etc/hosts:

192.168.9.200 mysql-backend.example.lan mysql-backend
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