Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello Amanda People > > I can't find any reference on the web to this error message which > started occurring a couple of days ago: > > WARNING: cherry2000: selfcheck request failed: > cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk: did not resolve to cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk > > Running 'host cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk' gives the expected result: > > cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk has address 192.168.1.2
but does 192.168.1.2 come back as cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk ? > > and I haven't (knowingly) changed anything related to domain names. > > Since I started getting that message, all backups have been failing with > messages such as > > cherry2000 / RESULTS MISSING > > I'm running Amanda version 2.5.0p2 on Debian with a 2.6.17 kernel. > > Any suggestions as to where to start looking? I would start with checking forward/reverse name resolution on the client. Adding it to the hosts file might be sufficient if your nsswitch.conf file has files before dns for hosts. Frank > > regards > > Chris -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
