... no dice.
I've added cain root to .amandahosts
I should tell you these hosts are not in DNS. Only resoved by the hosts
file. Can this have a negative effect on amanda's recovery process?
Thanks,
- db
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >Yes I did find it, now I'm down to what lookes like permissions probs:
>
> Yup.
>
> >check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from root@cain]
> >...
> >I guess I don't understand though because my .amandahosts on the backup
> >server has:
> >
> >cain.usace.army.mil root
> >cain.usace.army.mil amanda
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
> You have to read that error message *very* carefully. It says the request
> came in from "cain", not "cain.usace.army.mil". For whatever reason,
> you're not using fully qualified domain names (*). Adding this line
> should fix (get around) your problem:
>
> cain root
>
> >- db
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> (*) This might be a problem with your DNS or your /etc/hosts file.
> The actual problem is that a reverse (IP -> name) lookup on the server
> (amidxtaped) side returned just "cain" for whatever IP address the
> client has. These tools might help:
>
> ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gethostby*.c
>
> In particular, build gethostbyaddr on the server and hand it the IP
> address of the client. I'm betting it just says "cain". Then all you
> have to do is figure out why :-).
>
