ok, wait, 

NOW, host stupid.server does yield the proper address!

Shrug.....

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 4:08 PM
To: Matt Hyclak
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: New AMANDA server cannot one reach old client. (hostname
lookup failed with the wrong IP)

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 at 4:03pm, Matt Hyclak wrote

> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:46:13PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A.
enlightened us:
>> I have a RHE4 machine with the standard AMANDA config, and then I 
>> copied over my amanda.conf file, disklist, and chg-conf file from the

>> old AMANDA server.
>>
>> Now, all the clients report OK, except one! Stupid old AIX! Amcheck 
>> says,
>>
>> ERROR: stupid.server.edu [addr 555.555.555.555: hostname lookup 
>> failed]
>>
>> Obviously I replace the true name & IP with fake names.
>>
>> The IP is NOT CORRECT! Even in the /etc/hosts file, it has the 
>> correct IP for this stupid.server.
>>
>> Any ideas on why amanda would think that stupid.server is the wrong
IP?
>>
>
> This is usually a reverse-DNS issue. What does
>
> host stupid.server.edu
>
> return?

Also, can stupid.server do lookups of smart.amanda.server?

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