Hello everyone, I have a problem with using FQDNs in my .amandahosts file on both the backup server and the client machines. I am planning a backup of several machines inside a private network, without any DNS. So I'm concerned that the backup will fail because none of the machines would actually resolve.
My network is a small lab network 192.168.1.0/24 setup inside a firewall. There isn't any DNS inside the network, and with the exception of 3 Linux machines (one of which is the backup server with tape drive attached), all the other 13 clients are Win2k/XP machines in a workgroup who get their IPs from DHCPd running on the firewall. Is it possible to use IP addresses in .amandahosts inside such a network, or, since all of the machines that I want to backup are behind the firewall, can I do ./configure --without-amandahosts? If the latter, then how does amanda know to allow connections to/from the backup server? Thanks, Stefan
