When the client receives a request for a restore from the master the
request comes from an IP address, the client needs to be able to
resolve this IP address back to a hostname.  If reverse DNS is
out, this would cause the restore to fail with probably a Status 59,
access to client is not allowed.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark_Kolodziejski AT vanguard DOT com
[mailto:Mark_Kolodziejski AT vanguard DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:34 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and DNS


We have recently had some problems with DNS around here...  reverse lookups
were
out for a while and we noticed that restores could not be done during this
time.
Forward (name -> IP) looks were unaffected during this time.

The question that was asked of me was why NetBackup apparantly needs to do
forward and reverse lookups on a client to be able process a restore which
was
initiated from the master?

Thanks,
Mark


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