On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Bruce Wynia wrote:

BW>     Networker (7.2.1) - on Linux RedHat.       
BW>     Server and client on differant internal sub-nets, and muss pass-thru a 
BW> hardware firewall.
BW> 
BW>     I fail a client backup with -> nsrexecd: Host name verification 
BW> failed - unknown host.
BW> 
BW>     nslookup works fine on both server and client.
BW>     telnet/ping/... all work fine.
BW>     all ports are currently open between the internal sub-nets.
BW> 
BW>     networker indicates it is failing when looking up 192.168.40.1 - which 
BW> is the firewall IP in this case, not the Network server.  This has no DNS 
BW> or /etc/host entry.
BW> 
BW>     What do I configure differantly in DNS or the /etc/hosts files to 
BW> reslove this?  

Ensure that the hostname on the actual client matches what you have 
defined as the client hostname, or at least ensure that there is an alias 
for the actual client hostname in the aliases field on the 
networker server.

//Oscar

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