RE: Problems with canonical names from an ADSL provider

[Lengyel, Florian]

Title: RE: Problems with canonical names from an ADSL provider

If your server amanda.mydomain.com has an immutable static ip address,

abc.efg.hij.klm

but your client does a lookup on the ISP dns and sees
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
instead of amanda.mydomain.com

then why not define an entry in your hosts file on the client
of the form

abc.efg.hij.klm amanda.mydomain.com

?



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Leangen
Sent: Sun 11/13/2005 9:01 PM
To: amanda-users@amanda.org
Subject: Problems with canonical names from an ADSL provider


Hello!

This may be slightly beyond the scope of Amanda, but I thought I'd try
asking anyway...

Both my Amanda server and (one) backup host are connected to the
Internet via ADSL. It seems that when Amanda on the backup host does a
DNS lookup for my Amanda server, it sees something like:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which is generated by my ISP.

Now, since I have a static IP address, the really-long-and-annoying-
hostname shouldn't change. However, I would much rather use the server's
actual hostname (amanda.mydomain.com) instead.


Is there some simple way of working around this? Or am I stuck with the
really-long-and-annoying-hostname unless I do something complicated like
implementing my own DNS lookup server or something like that?


Thanks for any advice you can give me...


Dave