Per the FreeIPA quickstart guide:

The rule about /etc/hosts is that the fully-qualified name must come first. It should look like:

10.0.0.1       ipa.example.com ipa

Our servers run SAP, which requires the reverse. An SAP server's canonical name must be its short name. :(

Is there any way to get freeipa to work with short names? I know it says "must be fully qualified" several times in the docs... Suggestions? Workarounds? Kludges?

Dan