On Tue Mar 20 17:10:21 2001 John R. Jackson wrote...
>
>> How can a given client "sometimes" not be able to resolve the
>> tapehost?
>
>You're asking the wrong folks. Amanda just calls the system provided
>gethostby* routines. You need to look into how those work (i.e. whether
>they look at /etc/hosts, DNS, etc) and guess at why those are failing
>sometimes.
>
>My guess would be that you are using DNS and that the server just goes
>to sleep on occasion. And/or you don't have enough fallback servers to
>take up the cause when the primary does not respond.
>
Mmm, I am really puzzled by this. The tapeserver is an HP-UX 10.20 box, on the
same network are 2 other HP-UX boxes, also 10.20. All of these machines have
each other in the /etc/hosts file, and nsswitch.conf set up to check there
first.
Almost all the other machines that the tapserver backus up are on other
subnets, and have to go through a FreeBSD gateway box.
Like I said, it's just weird.
Thanks.
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