On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 at 10:21am, Michael P. Blinn wrote > The machine could back itself up just fine, though after careful checking, I > think I've found the problem! For some reason, when I changed the disklist > entry to 'localhost' instead of 'backup' it went through w/out complaint. > This could not be a DNS issue because it's running a local bind.. why would > this problem manifest itself like that??
Maybe it was getting the wrong IP address during the lookup? Typically DNS issues are marked as such in the error logs, but in this case maybe they weren't. You may want to work through the DNS issue, though -- John Jackson always advocated against using localhost. > Thank you so much for your help! I'm sharing directories explicitly and > about to run my first for-real amdump. > *knocks wood* Good luck -- glad to hear it's about to be working. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
