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Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems
2005-10-28 18:52:11
KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
Thank you, Olivier, Scott and Matt, for all your suggestions. Your
helpfulness is part of what makes Amanda a truly great solution.
AMANDA-users take care of each other ;-)
The problem, as you all suggested, seems to be the lack of a reverse
DNS look-up capability
I'm betting this might be a fairly common problem that some of you
all have solved before. What's your preferred solution? I can think
of a couple of alternatives, such as:
- set up my own DNS on one of
my hosts in the DMZ. This isn't too hard, but is one more thing to
maintain.
If "the folks who control the DNS" won't set up proper reverse-lookups
for your hosts (this would be somehow unprofessional, AFAI see), I don't
see any problem in setting up a local BIND with a "forwarders"-parameter
pointing to the DNS of "the folks".
If your hosts are pretty static, there won't be much maintenance, just
some initial setup.
Stefan
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