On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 at 10:45am, Christoph Brunner wrote > a tcpdump on the loopback device says: > ================================= > tcpdump: listening on lo > 10:40:45.589797 backup03m.1008 > backup03m.10080: udp 117 (DF) > 10:40:55.482650 backup03m.1008 > backup03m.10080: udp 117 (DF) > 10:41:05.482671 backup03m.1008 > backup03m.10080: udp 117 (DF) > > 6 packets received by filter > 0 packets dropped by kernel > ================================= > > Shouldn't there be responds from port 10080 to 1008?
Yep. Which tells me that amandad isn't listening *or* is refusing the connection. What distro is this? What does 'netstat -l | grep amanda' say? Are you using inetd or xinetd? If the latter, what's in /etc/hosts.{deny,allow}? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University