"Bryan S. Sampsel" wrote:
>
> That's the bitch of it...it IS resolved: via nslookup, via ping--ANYTHING but Amanda.
>
> It's bizarre. I'm getting ready to compile amanda from source to see if it's a
>problem with the rpm on the client. Rpm installs are OK sometimes--other times, I'd
>rather not deal with 'em.
Do you have all of the redhat updates applied on the client? nscd was
buggy in RH 7.0 and that could cause problems with hostname lookups if
you use nscd and have not upgraded to the updated rpm. There were also
updated rpms for bind-utils, glibc, kernel, and possibly some other
packages that could affect hostname lookups.
You might want to run "nscd" on the client to do nameservice cacheing.
Check out /etc/nsswitch.conf and possibly put "files" first for hosts,
but then be careful about keeping /etc/hosts up to date or only put the
minimum necessary entries in /etc/hosts. If you use nscd, you might
have to do the following to flush the cache (on the amanda client,
because that is where the lookups are failing):
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart
Stupid question, but did you add the address to /etc/hosts on both the
server and the client?
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"Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
