On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:31:18PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote:
> It just occurred to me that maybe this is a side effect of /etc/hosts cache 
> poisoning (courtesy of Red Hat Linux 7.3 NSCD).  We've been getting e-mail 
> from a netblock in Vietnam that reverse-resolves to "localhost".  NSCD 
> caches the reverse lookup and resolves "localhost" to a machine in Vietnam. 
> Does amanda use gethostbyname("localhost") when connecting a dumper to a 
> taper?

Yes

>  Would upgrading to the current version change this?

No, it's a problem with your system configuration, not an amanda bug.

Jean-Louis