In this area I cannot help but to disagree with Ed, for whom I have
great respect.  The use of FQDN is used too often to mask a poor DNS
configuration.  With NBU you need full forward and reverse lookup.  When
either is missing a short term solution would be the use of /etc/hosts
files until your network team can fix the DNS by adding the servers IP
address to both zones.

Thanks, 
Rockey J. Reed 
Lead Solutions Specialist 
Consulting Services 
Symantec Corporation 
www.symantec.com 
Email: rockey_reed AT symantec DOT com 
-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 6:21 AM
To: Wilkinson, Alex
Cc: List Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] FQDNs or Not ? [recommendations please]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:58:22PM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Is it 'best practice' to use FQDN for our Master/Media Servers ?

Yes.  Not just for for NetBackup, but in general, use FQDN whenever
possible.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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