>
> I've reinstalled many times, with many options on and off, I've rebooted,
> HUP'd and kill -9'd every possible suspect. Since the service is being
> denied at the door, there are no amanda debug files, and all the
> server says
> is that the request timed out. Snooping the traffic shows that
> the client is
> sending back a message that the destination is unreachable.

Longshot, but might this client be multi-homed?

Maybe the amanda server is calling the client one name, but /etc/hosts or
DNS returns a different name for the same address?

Doug