I see those messages but the backup still works...    When there are
multiple VIFs on a client there can be a problem when it chooses one of
the VIF ip's as the source address for the outbounc tcp connection back
t the networker servers.

You can put   save -c {mainclientname} in the backup command field and
that often sorts it out, but you still get the messages, and sometimes
it doesn't work still...

The thing with solaris ip config is that you are allowed to have
multiple ip addresses on a host that are in the same subnet as each
other - it will roundrobin through these addresses as source ip's when
making outbound connections - if you configure your Virtual Ips to all
have the DEPRECATED ipconfig flag then they will not be used for
outbound source ip's automatically, and then the connections will all
come from the IP you want the connections to come from...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas S Pinard
> Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 5:37 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] DNS lookups on virtual interfaces 
> breaking backups
> 
> I have a Solaris client that has 188 VIFs.  These VIFs are on 
> a seperate
> network than the primary interface, but statically routed to 
> the primary
> interface.
> 
> I recently moved this client from an old (5.1.103) Networker 
> server to a
> newer (7.3.2) server.  Backups worked just fine on the old 
> server, but are
> failing on the new one.  It appears to be failing because it 
> is trying to
> nslookup all of the VIFs:
> 
> * my.client.net:All savefs: Reverse DNS lookup failed for
> address 1.2.3.1
> * my.client.net:All savefs: Reverse DNS lookup failed for
> address 1.2.3.2
> * my.client.net:All savefs: Reverse DNS lookup failed for
> address 1.2.3.3
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to get around this, or why it is 
> doing this?
> I surely don't want to have to tell the admin they have to 
> make 188 DNS
> entries.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> TomP
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