Thank you, Olivier, Scott and Matt, for all your suggestions. Your helpfulness is part of what makes Amanda a truly great solution.
The problem, as you all suggested, seems to be the lack of a reverse DNS look-up capability: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.jhuccp.org www.jhuccp.org has address 162.129.45.74 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ head /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.253.192.204 www.jhuccp.org <snip> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host -n 10.253.192.204 Host 204.192.253.10.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ My hosts are in a DMZ, in the 10.253.192/24 network. They're NATted to the outside Internet as hosts in the 162.129.45/24 network. The solution proposed by the folks who control the DNS was to use a /etc/hosts file. As you probably know, this provides forward DNS-like lookups, but not reverse. At this point, they seem unwilling to provide a split DNS that would resolve correctly in both forward and reverse directions for the DMZ. I'm betting this might be a fairly common problem that some of you all have solved before. What's your preferred solution? I can think of a couple of alternatives, such as: - set up my own DNS on one of my hosts in the DMZ. This isn't too hard, but is one more thing to maintain. I'd probably choose tinydns, since I already run qmail. - hack amanda to remove the check for reverse DNS. If this is preferred, can anyone give me a hint where to find this and how to best do it? - Can /etc/hosts or something related provide static reverse DSN look-ups? This would be an easy solution, but I don't know of anything that does it. Thanks you all, again, for all your suggestions and advice. -Kevin >>> Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/19/05 09:36PM >>> Hi, > ERROR: www.jhuccp.org: [addr 10.253.192.205: hostname lookup failed] > Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.702 seconds, 1 problem found That seems like network issue to me, rather than amanda issue. Did you make sure that your amanda server can ping to www.jhuccp.org? After renumbering did you change your DNS server address? Bests, olivier