I was afraid of this.... Of course it's working flawlessly now.... 

Whomever decided to make Networker dependent on an outside service like DNS 
made a very foolish decision IMHO... In a Disaster Recovery situation, you're 
not always going to have DNS up and working, it's just one more requirement you 
have to provide for and sometimes it can be very hard to provide. Making your 
BACKUPS DEPENDANT on DNS is STUPID !!! I liked the old EMC EDM product where 
you maintained your own host file for client name resolution and did not depend 
on an outside service like DNS. Backup processes and procedures should be 
self-sufficient , period .... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricio Mora [mailto:patricio.mora AT juntadeandalucia DOT es] 
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:03 AM
> To: Goslin, Paul
> Subject: Re: [Networker] ALL Clients suddenly started failing
> 
> This happens when DNS resolution (including reverse loookup) 
> is not available, or is inconsistent with definitions of 
> clients on Legato.
> Check nslookup both in server and clients. Use the field 
> "alias" of a client to match DNS name of each client.
> 
> Goslin, Paul escribió:
> > Happy Monday...
> > Over the weekend, something happened to cause virtually ALL our 
> > backups to fail with errors of the type: 'CLIENT-NAME' is not a 
> > regisistered client.... Cannot open save session with 
> > buserver.domain.com (backup server), see below. Any ideas 
> what causes something like this to happen
> > ??? Or what the resolution is ??   We're running 7.4.2 on 
> Winserver 2003
> > with approx 90 clients (mostly WIN, some Unix/Linux)... Everything 
> > started failing on Saturday...
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > NetWorker savegroup: (alert) Savegroup-name completed, Total 2 
> > client(s), 2 Failed. Please see group completion details for more 
> > information.
> >
> > Failed: client-1, client-2
> >
> > Start time:   Mon Oct 06 06:30:01 2008
> > End time:     Mon Oct 06 06:33:55 2008
> >
> >
> > --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
> >
> > * client-1:C:\ 1 retry attempted
> > * client-1:C:\
> > * client-1:C:\ 5777:save: Cannot open save session with 
> > buserver.domain.com
> >      * <ERROR> :  Failed with error(s)
> > * client-1:D:\ 1 retry attempted
> > * client-1:D:\ 39078:save: File index error: 
> `client-1.cincom.com' is 
> > not a registered client
> > * client-1:D:\
> > * client-1:D:\ 5777:save: Cannot open save session with 
> > buserver.domain.com
> >      * <ERROR> :  Failed with error(s)
> > * client-1:F:\ 1 retry attempted
> > * client-1:F:\ 39078:save: File index error: 
> `client-1.cincom.com' is 
> > not a registered client
> > * client-1:F:\
> > * client-1:F:\ 5777:save: Cannot open save session with 
> > buserver.domain.com
> >
> > * client-2:C:\ 1 retry attempted
> > * client-2:C:\ 39078:save: File index error: 
> `client-2.cincom.com' is 
> > not a registered client
> > * client-2:C:\
> > * client-2:C:\ 5777:save: Cannot open save session with 
> > buserver.domain.com
> > * client-2:D:\ 1 retry attempted
> > * client-2:D:\ 39078:save: File index error: 
> `client-2.cincom.com' is 
> > not a registered client
> > * client-2:D:\
> > * client-2:D:\ 5777:save: Cannot open save session with 
> > buserver.domain.com
> > * client-2:F:\ 1 retry attempted
> > * client-2:F:\ 39078:save: File index error: 
> `client-2.cincom.com' is 
> > not a registered client
> > * client-2:F:\
> > * client-2:F:\ 5777:save: Cannot open save session with 
> > buserver.domain.com
> >      * <ERROR> :  Failed with error(s)
> >
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