Sounds like you may still have the server's old IP address somewhere
in your hosts file, or in DNS/NIS.  See if 'nslookup servername'
returns what you expect.

Frank

--On Monday, February 10, 2003 14:17:15 -0500 Brad <rbt AT vt DOT edu> wrote:

Hello,


We change the IP address on our amanda server because we moved to a new
building. Now, when we run "su amanda -c "amcheck daily" we continually
get the 'selfcheck request timed out' error, but the server can still
check the other hosts it backs up. No other changes were made to the
server. It was up and running for several months before the move w/o any
problems. Here's what I've verified:

amanda can write to /var/tmp/amanda
there are no firewalls in place
according to lsof, all amanda services are still running
I can ping the server from itself and from other clients on the network
Restarting xinetd or rebooting does not correct the problem
The server has entries for itself in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

Any ideas? We're using version 2.4.2p2-7 on a RH 7.3 server (it was
installed with RH's default rpms). Like I said earlier, it worked
perfectly for several months before we moved to the new building and
changed IPs, but that doesn't seem like it should cause this.

Thanks

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