--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 15:35:11 -0800 Greg Harper <greg.harper AT 
kimptongroup DOT com> wrote:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm sure that people on the list are tired of amcheck questions, but
> I've searched everywhere I could think of and haven't been able to
> find a similar problem.  I don't get anything useful from the server
> side, 

What are you getting on the server side, a timeout?

but here's what I get from the client amandad logs:
> 
> amandad: time 0.000: got packet:
> 
> --------
> Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 001-A85C0608 SEQ 1069180898
> SECURITY USER amanda
> SERVICE noop
> OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
> --------
> 
> amandad: time 0.000: sending ack:
> ----
> Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 001-A85C0608 SEQ 1069180898
> ----
> 
> amandad: time 0.000: bsd security: remote host mail.xxx.com user
> amanda local user amanda
> amandad: time 0.014: amandahosts security check passed
> amandad: time 0.014: running service "noop"
> amandad: time 0.014: sending REP packet:
> ----
> Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 001-A85C0608 SEQ 1069180898
> OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
> ----
> 
> amandad: time 9.514: got packet:
> ----
> Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 001-A85C0608 SEQ 1069180898
> SECURITY USER amanda
> SERVICE noop
> OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
> ----
> 
> amandad: time 9.514: it is not an ack
> amandad: time 9.514: sending REP packet:
> ----
> Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 001-A85C0608 SEQ 1069180898
> OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
> ----
> 
> amandad: time 19.511: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
> amandad: time 19.511: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
> amandad: time 19.515: got packet:
> ----
> Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 001-A85C0608 SEQ 1069180898
> SECURITY USER amanda
> SERVICE noop
> OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
> ----
> 
> amandad: time 19.515: it is not an ack
> amandad: time 29.511: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
> amandad: time 29.511: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
> amandad: time 39.510: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
> amandad: time 39.510: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
> amandad: time 49.510: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
> amandad: time 49.510: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
> amandad: time 59.509: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
> amandad: time 59.510: waiting for ack: timeout, giving up!
> amandad: time 59.510: pid 3434 finish time Tue Nov 18 10:42:49 2003
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

Any chance there's a firewall in betwen (or tcpwrappers or
something similar on one or both boxes)?

Frank

> Thanks,
> Greg
> 



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