On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 at 9:15am, justin m. clayton wrote
>
> > First of all, thanks to all who helped me track down my NAK problems from
> > last week. Having fixed that, all backup hosts pass amcheck with flying
> > colors. However, when it comes time for the amdump, my log report claims
> > "Request to <host> timed out" when I return the following morning.
> > However, if I run amcheck again, no hosts report problems. This has been
> > going on for a number of days now. I am getting "Read error at byte
> > 0...:Bad file number" on some hosts (via /tmp/amanda/sendsize.*), and some
> > are reporting "amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
> > amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying" (via /tmp/amanda/amandad.*).
> > Strangely, though, the symptom is the same for all machines.
>
> What OS/distro?  Are there firewalls in the way?

The clients are Solaris 8, the server is stable Debian linux, both using
2.4.2p2. No firewalls in the way. This configuration has worked in the
past.

Justin Clayton
VLSI Research System Administrator
University of Washington
Electrical Engineering Dept
justincl AT u.washington DOT edu
206/543.2523  EE/CSE 307E