hi all ... thanks for the reply's so far ....
I know the reverse lookups are fine (see original email) ... to add some
more info that might help, look at this weekends results .... there are 8
filesystems in the schedule ... 8 of them work ... and ONE of them gets the
error ... one can only assume that maybe there is a DNS timeout in the
code. The other 7 worked fine. I know the host gets pretty loaded up ...
it's feeding 5 AIT tape drives and the disks are working at about 15-20MB /sec
when they are "feeding" the 5 tape drives. Maybe it's a timeout??
Here's the output from the weekend:
Subject: schedule6 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR March 5, 2004
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 21:11:03 +1100 (EST)
From: Amanda Archiving Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These dumps were to tape schedule6-WEEK2.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: schedule6-WEEK3.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
intrap /htdocs lev 0 FAILED [ [host windamere.dlwc.nsw.gov.au: hostname
lookup failed]]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04
Run Time (hrs:min) 2:11
Dump Time (hrs:min) 1:36 1:36 0:00
Output Size (meg) 19176.8 19176.8 0.0
Original Size (meg) 19176.8 19176.8 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
Filesystems Dumped 7 7 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 3405.0 3405.0 --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 1:45 1:45 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 19176.8 19176.8 0.0
Tape Used (%) 26.8 26.8 0.0
Filesystems Taped 7 7 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 3105.1 3105.1 --
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb
schedule6-WEEK2 1:45 19176.8 26.8 7
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
/-- intrap /htdocs lev 0 FAILED [ [host windamere.dlwc.nsw.gov.au: hostname
lookup failed]]
\--------
NOTES:
planner: tapecycle (6) <= runspercycle (6)
planner: Last full dump of intrap:/htdocs on tape overwritten in 1 run.
taper: tape schedule6-WEEK2 kb 19637248 fm 7 [OK]
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
intrap / 0 28156482815648 -- 7:076599.7 15:023123.1
intrap /appl 0 12363201236320 -- 3:395636.7 6:493020.1
intrap -xport/home 0 437184 437184 -- 0:587507.5 2:302915.7
intrap /htdocs 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
intrap /opt 0 14208641420864 -- 4:095717.6 7:363115.5
intrap /opt/apache 0 47804484780448 -- 24:173281.8 25:333118.1
intrap /u01 0 57900805790080 -- 48:191997.2 31:043106.2
intrap /u02 0 31564803156480 -- 7:396882.0 16:503124.9
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p2)
Jonathan Dill wrote:
> Resolving IP address to a hostname (reverse lookup) is the part that
> looks broken, check the reverse domain in the DNS i.e.
>
> host 172.24.16.86
> or
> nslookup 172.24.16.86
>
> The error says *hostname* lookup failed, not "address lookup failed."
> Someone else reported a similar problem a few days ago, and he reported
> that there was a typo in the reverse domain file of the DNS, and that
> fixing that fixed the problem.
>
> I wonder though, Why does amanda need to do a reverse lookup? You give
> amanda a hostname in the DLE, and it looks up the IP address, which
> should be adequate for amanda to do what it needs to do. But then it
> tries to do a reverse lookup for the hostname based on the IP address,
> and gives up if that fails.
>
> It would be nice if the reverse lookup could be avoided. In principle,
> yes, the reverse table in your DNS should be correct, but failing backup
> seems like an expensive DNS diagnostic.
>
> >> planner: ERROR intrap: [addr 172.24.16.86: hostname lookup failed]
> >>
> >>
> --jonathan
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