Re: Hostname lookup failed?

[Ben Elliston]

   It says that when Amanda tried to do a reverse lookup (IP
   203.24.38.228 back to a host name), it failed.

Ahh.  Problem sorted, thanks.  Name service had died at that machine's site.
Is it possible that the error message could be improved?

   Being able to ping the host is irrelevant.  I assume you did it by
   name, which is the other direction (name -> IP).  And doing it by IP
   does not go through a lookup.

Of course, by name.

Thanks, John.

Ben