Frank Smith wrote:

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 ?

No!

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.

It's in /etc/hosts, and I've got 'files' before 'dns', but something is
going wrong.
Thank you -- now I know what it is I have to fix.

Frank

cheers

Chris