Re: Strange DNS lookup problems ... I think ...
2004-03-06 09:16:48
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 at 2:44pm, Geoff Swavley wrote
> I run 25 schedules per night, and only 1 ... this one ... gives me some
> heart-ache. I know it must be something other than DNS but all of the
> error messages are trying to send me down that garden path. The amanda
> host machine is "windamere", and schedule6 backs up "intrap". I can log onto
> both machines and easily do forward and reverse lookups on both hosts, so I
> know
>
> there is no DNS issue.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> windamere[26]% nslookup intrap
*snip*
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> planner: ERROR intrap: [addr 172.24.16.86: hostname lookup failed]
Amanda may be using different system calls than nslookup. John R. Jackson
posted a couple of little utilities that use the same syscalls as amanda.
I put them up at:
http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/gethostbyaddr.c
http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/gethostbyname.c
See if those work.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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