On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 at 2:44pm, Geoff Swavley wrote

> I run 25 schedules per night, and only 1 ... this one ... gives me some
> heart-ache. I know it must be something other than DNS but all of the
> error messages are trying to send me down that garden path. The amanda
> host machine is "windamere", and schedule6 backs up "intrap". I can log onto
> both machines and easily do forward and reverse lookups on both hosts, so I 
> know
> 
> there is no DNS issue.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> windamere[26]% nslookup intrap
*snip*
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   planner: ERROR intrap:  [addr 172.24.16.86: hostname lookup failed]

Amanda may be using different system calls than nslookup.  John R. Jackson 
posted a couple of little utilities that use the same syscalls as amanda.  
I put them up at:

http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/gethostbyaddr.c
http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/gethostbyname.c

See if those work.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University