On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 at 11:56am, Michael Kahle wrote

> Sorry if I was not clear here.  The server itself is/has a fqdn.  e.g.
> fs.internal.com.  This is also properly registered with my DNS server.
> 
> What I am referring to here is in the .amandahosts file, it contains the
> line (by default):
> localhost backup

amcheck will tell you, once the client is accepting the incoming amanda 
connection, if the .amandahosts entry isn't right, and the error message 
will let you know what form it wants.

Don't use localhost anywhere, especially the disklist.

> Will the client look to identify the client in the same way that, say my
> host.allow file does?  Or does amanda use some other mechanism to
> send/verify this information to amanda.

Amanda uses gethostbyname() to do the lookups.

It's a lot easier for us to debug this if you tell us what errors you're 
getting when you run amcheck on the server, and send any relevant logfiles 
or debug files from /tmp/amanda.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University