--On Friday, December 17, 2004 17:19:44 -0500 Gil Naveh <gnaveh AT cleverex DOT 
com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a local server and a remote client, both run Oracle 9.
> When I tries to run amcheck from the server to the remote client I get the
> following error message:
> "ERROR: hostname: [addr 38.128.57.138: hostname lookup failed]"
> 
> Any ideas on how to troubleshot it. - Is it a network problem? yet, I can
> ping, ftp, ssh to the remote machine. Or did I miss something when I
> configure Amanda?

When the server connects to the client, the client tries to
resolve the connection source IP to see if it matches any of
the hostnames in your amandahosts file.  Evidently your client
machine can't resolve 38.128.57.138 into a hostname, so the
connection is refused.

Frank

> 
> Many Thanks :),
> gil



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