Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello Amanda People
> 
> I can't find any reference on the web to this error message which
> started occurring a couple of days ago:
> 
>    WARNING: cherry2000: selfcheck request failed:
> cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk: did not resolve to cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk
> 
> Running 'host cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk' gives the expected result:
> 
>    cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk has address 192.168.1.2

but does 192.168.1.2 come back as cherry2000.mydomain.org.uk ?
> 
> and I haven't (knowingly) changed anything related to domain names.
> 
> Since I started getting that message, all backups have been failing with 
> messages such as
> 
>    cherry2000  /            RESULTS MISSING
> 
> I'm running Amanda version 2.5.0p2 on Debian with a 2.6.17 kernel.
> 
> Any suggestions as to where to start looking?

I would start with checking forward/reverse name resolution on the
client.  Adding it to the hosts file might be sufficient if your
nsswitch.conf file has files before dns for hosts.


Frank

> 
> regards
> 
> Chris


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