On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:56:52AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER enlightened us:
> I had an amanda setup that worked fine until two weeks ago, when I had to 
> change the network addresses of all my hosts and move them into a separate 
> DMZ, using a different, new DNS. Now, I'm not able to get one host to 
> respond, and the output is puzzling:
> 
> amanda@cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg$ amcheck -c DBackup
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: www.jhuccp.org: [addr 10.253.192.205: hostname lookup failed]
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.702 seconds, 1 problem found
> 

Slightly misleading, but this is a failure trying to resolve the reverse
DNS. You need to have a DNS server answering for 10.253.192.205.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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