On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 at 2:44pm, Geoff Swavley wrote > I run 25 schedules per night, and only 1 ... this one ... gives me some > heart-ache. I know it must be something other than DNS but all of the > error messages are trying to send me down that garden path. The amanda > host machine is "windamere", and schedule6 backs up "intrap". I can log onto > both machines and easily do forward and reverse lookups on both hosts, so I know > > there is no DNS issue. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > windamere[26]% nslookup intrap *snip* > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > planner: ERROR intrap: [addr 172.24.16.86: hostname lookup failed]
Amanda may be using different system calls than nslookup. John R. Jackson posted a couple of little utilities that use the same syscalls as amanda. I put them up at: http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/gethostbyaddr.c http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/gethostbyname.c See if those work. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
