Question

Hostname Specified in license file is not available in the local network database. When can licensing administrator encounter this error on server startup?

Answer

Root Cause

Non Standard characters in the hostname. For ex: localized languages (Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, etc) and also including many European languages using non-standard letter like Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü.

This is a known issue. It is a limitation rooted in standards.

RFC-952, as modified by RFC-1123, permits only A-Z, 0-9 and - in a hostname. We won't be contravening this spec by trying to support additional chars in hostname.

On startup, the license server is unable to resolve such a hostname.