Hi Santiago,
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Santiago wrote:
>
> Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I
> have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling
> amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda
> - I have put the correct machine name/IP in /etc/hosts. There is no
> DNS resolution for this machine (or many other machines that I will be
> backing up). How do I correct this error and get amanda to resolve
> hostnames correctly (from my /etc/hosts file)?
>
> TIA,
> Santiago
>
> Yes, the machine resolves to /etc/hosts first.
I had this problem too. You have to make sure that the client can look
up the server as well. So I guess scratchy needs an entry in /etc/hosts
for the backup server :-)
Hope that helps,
Simon
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