If your server amanda.mydomain.com has an immutable static ip address,

abc.efg.hij.klm

but your client does a lookup on the ISP dns and sees
   amanda AT some.really.long DOT and.annoying.hostname
instead of amanda.mydomain.com

then why not define an entry in your hosts file on the client
of the form

abc.efg.hij.klm amanda.mydomain.com

?



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org on behalf of David Leangen
Sent: Sun 11/13/2005 9:01 PM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Problems with canonical names from an ADSL provider


Hello!

This may be slightly beyond the scope of Amanda, but I thought I'd try
asking anyway...

Both my Amanda server and (one) backup host are connected to the
Internet via ADSL. It seems that when Amanda on the backup host does a
DNS lookup for my Amanda server, it sees something like:

  amanda AT some.really.long DOT and.annoying.hostname

which is generated by my ISP.

Now, since I have a static IP address, the really-long-and-annoying-
hostname shouldn't change. However, I would much rather use the server's
actual hostname (amanda.mydomain.com) instead.


Is there some simple way of working around this? Or am I stuck with the
really-long-and-annoying-hostname unless I do something complicated like
implementing my own DNS lookup server or something like that?


Thanks for any advice you can give me...


Dave