# In case the dhcp server is not capable of assigning a dnsdomainname, hostname -f fails.
# Fallback to IP of host.


diff --git a/dist/obsapisetup b/dist/obsapisetup
index 678dc64..d428ef5 100755
--- a/dist/obsapisetup
+++ b/dist/obsapisetup
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ webuidir=/srv/www/obs/webui

 FQHOSTNAME=`hostname -f`

+if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+  # Fallback to IP of the VM/host
+  FQHOSTNAME=`ip addr | sed -n 's,.*inet \(.*\)/.* brd.*,\1,p' | grep -v ^127. | head -n 1`
+  if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+    echo "    Can't determine hostname or IP - Network setup failed!"
+    echo "    Check if networking is up and dhcp is working!"
+  fi
+fi
 . /etc/sysconfig/obs-server

 if [ "$OBS_API_AUTOSETUP" != "yes" ]; then