Amanda-Users

Re: hostname lookup failed

2004-11-08 09:06:55
Subject: Re: hostname lookup failed
From: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:40:21 -0500
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:21:28PM +0200, Leonid Shulov enlightened us:
> All time amanda did backup from  note0002.
> And now amcheck return me:
> 
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> Holding disk /home/amanda/tmp: 234693144 KB disk space available, using
> 213721624 KB
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: note0002: [addr 192.168.0.59: hostname lookup failed]
> Client check: 1 host checked in 10.025 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> ERROR [addr 192.168.0.59: hostname lookup failed]
> ----
> 192.168.0.59 is my amanda server IP
> 

The client needs to be able to do a reverse lookup on the server IP address,
so you'll either need to make sure a local reverse DNS is working to resolve
192.168.0.59 to your server's hostname, or put an entry for the server in
your client's host file.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263

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