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[Veritas-bu] anyone ever see this??

2005-05-06 10:14:55
Subject: [Veritas-bu] anyone ever see this??
From: pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:14:55 -0400
Just got back from checking with unix and network folks.

Found two issues:
the nsswitch.conf on the client not including DNS, and a firewall
blocking traffic from the client back to the master.

Fixed both, and things seem ok.

Thanks,
Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry [mailto:juanino AT yahoo DOT com] 
> Sent: May 6, 2005 10:12 AM
> To: Chris Adkisson; Paul Keating; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [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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