[Veritas-bu] anyone ever see this??

since bpcd runs from inetd, have the unix admin check
syslog (or wherever they are logging inetd) for errors
as well.

--- Chris Adkisson <chris.adkisson AT veritas DOT com> wrote:
> gethostbyaddr: Invalid argument
> 
>  
> 
> Usually indicates that the client (client_name in
> this case) can not do
> a reverse lookup of the IP address.
> 
>  
> 
> Check you reverse lookups for this client using
> nslookup <IP addr> or to
> test with the NetBackup command bpclntcmd.
> 
>  
> 
> Chris
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On
> Behalf Of Paul
> Keating
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:52 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] anyone ever see this??
> 
>  
> 
> bash-2.03# telnet client_name bpcd
> Trying 10.0.248.58...
> Connected to client_name.blah.blah.ca.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> gethostbyaddr: Invalid argument
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> bash-2.03#
> 
>  
> 
> Specifically the "gethostbyaddr: Invalid argument"
> part.
> 
>  
> 
> I can't see anything wrong with the configuration of
> this particular,
> other than that.
> 
>  
> 
> There are three machines exibiting this behaviour.
> These are 3 of 13
> solaris boxes that were upgraded from 4.5 to 5.0MP3.
> 
>  
> 
> The unix admin that did the client install just
> verified that no bp
> processes were running, removed the /usr/openv
> directory, then installed
> 5.0, and added the MP3 pack.
> 
>  
> 
> Paul
> 
> 


                
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