Re: amcheck and fqdn names

Thank you Jon.

I don't know how to tell the Name Server (Server 2003) to return the other aliases?

If someone knows, I'll be happy to update the DNS config...

In the meantimne, I tried your idea to add the aliases in my local hosts file.

I changed the resolution order to go to the local hosts file first.

I added all aliases I can think about (probably too many -:)

[reddog] (root) etc> cat hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.gpv.az05.bull.com localhost loopback
141.112.17.140 reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com reddog.gpv.az05.bull reddog.gpv.az05 reddog.gpv reddog

If I rerun the cde, I now get a similar output of yours:

[reddog] (root) GetHost.d> ./gethostbyname reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com
name reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com -> reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com
                                 reddog.gpv.az05.bull (alias)
                                 reddog.gpv.az05 (alias)
                                 reddog.gpv (alias)
                                 reddog (alias)
                                 141.112.17.140 (addr)

But amcheck still failed the same way (30s timeout) IF I don't specify the fqdn?

(I also tried to just have the fqdn and the name w/o domain)

Another thing: I run the program against one of my AIX client (same DNS domain) and it returns the same thing (no aliases - just the fqdn). I also run it on the AIX itself and same result (no aliases

However, this AIX system works okay with amcheck w/o specifying a fqdn ?...

Jerome

----- Original Message -----

From: Jon LaBadie

To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org

Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:48 AM

Subject: Re: amcheck and fqdn names

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:26:58AM -0700, Jerome Pioux wrote:
>
> > Build the attached programs, gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr.
> > ...
> > Make sure you get proper resolution with the address, the fqdn, and the shortname.
>
> I don't see anything wong but maybe you can?
>
> [reddog] (root) GetHost.d> ./gethostbyname reddog
> name reddog -> reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com
>                141.112.17.140 (addr)
>
> [reddog] (root) GetHost.d> ./gethostbyname reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com
> name reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com -> reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com
>                                  141.112.17.140 (addr)
>
> [reddog] (root) GetHost.d> ./gethostbyaddr 141.112.17.140
> addr 141.112.17.140 -> reddog.gpv.az05.bull.com
>                        141.112.17.140 (addr)

Yeah, the last two.

You seem to be able to go from reddog to the FQDN
but from neither the FQDN nor the addr to reddog.

An example:

$ gethostbyname butch.jgcomp.com
name butch.jgcomp.com -> butch.jgcomp.com
                           butch (alias)
                           jgcomp.com (alias)
                           loghost (alias)
                           205.166.177.60 (addr)

Note it is listing all the aliases.

Don't know why yours doesn't. In the example above
the aliases are coming from my local hosts file.
But that doesn't have to be the case:

$ gethostbyname mail.yahoo.com
name mail.yahoo.com -> login.yahoo.akadns.net
                         mail.yahoo.com (alias)
                         login.yahoo.com (alias)
                         216.109.127.60 (addr)

HTH, maybe someone else has specific suggestions.

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