Due to the delay on this list, I'll respond to the last three responses...
My server (redhat3) cannot resolve redhat2 with Amanda (but can do so otherwise with
no problems), which resolves via DNS typically.
I added an extra entry for redhat2 to redhat3's host file.
I did update the .amandahosts on both systems.
Redhat2's client resolves itself no probs and the amcheck runs ok.
it's running the amcheck on the server, redhat3 that seems to be broken.
I believe nscd is the caching package meant to work with DNS and NIS--I don't use it.
Redhat3 (amanda server) is RH 7.1
Redhat2 (amanda client) is RH 7.0
DNS works fine for anything but Amanda for this specific client.
My other client, call it Sun2, works fine with amcheck. (Redhat3 amcheck resolves it
just fine).
bryan
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Bryan S. Sampsel
Systems Administrator
Ambeo, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: dill [mailto:dill]On Behalf Of Jonathan Dill
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:50 AM
To: Bryan S. Sampsel
Cc: 'Bort, Paul'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Try2, Amanda Question
"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])
