Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:31:18PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote:
It just occurred to me that maybe this is a side effect of /etc/hosts cache poisoning (courtesy of Red Hat Linux 7.3 NSCD). We've been getting e-mail from a netblock in Vietnam that reverse-resolves to "localhost". NSCD caches the reverse lookup and resolves "localhost" to a machine in Vietnam. Does amanda use gethostbyname("localhost") when connecting a dumper to a taper?
Yes
Would upgrading to the current version change this?
No, it's a problem with your system configuration, not an amanda bug.
Well, I turned off /etc/hosts caching so that should fix the system problem. What would I see in the amanda report if the false "localhost" had a process listening on the port in question? I presume the taper process would still time out. I probably need to go back through the reports and make sure we didn't back up everyone's e-mail to someplace in Vietnam. Thanks, John
Jean-Louis
