>ERROR: phse7: [addr 170.85.109.160: hostname lookup failed]
>
>phse7 is the client and 170.85.109.160 (phse6) is the tapeserver. A
>nslookup, ping etc from phse7 to phse6 works. ...
As Paul Bort mentioned, what Amanda is telling you is that it cannot
do a lookup of 170.85.109.160 and get back a hostname.
Ping has nothing to do with this since it does not do a hostname lookup.
You need to know how your system is doing host name lookups (/etc/hosts,
DNS, NIS, NIS+, Ouiji board) and get that set up properly. So nslookup
and a grep of /etc/hosts may also not matter if those are not what is
being used (although they are the most common).
I wrote a trivial set of programs to make the same gethost* calls
Amanda makes:
ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gethost*.c
When they are happy, Amanda will be happy. To make them happy, you'll
have to know how your system is set up to handle the calls and then
configure that properly (e.g. add an entry to /etc/hosts if that is
what is being used). For instance, on Solaris, there is a file called
/etc/nsswitch.conf that tells gethostby* in what order to search things.
>Stan Brown
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
