On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:46:13PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. enlightened us: > I have a RHE4 machine with the standard AMANDA config, and then I copied > over my amanda.conf file, disklist, and chg-conf file from the old > AMANDA server. > > Now, all the clients report OK, except one! Stupid old AIX! Amcheck > says, > > ERROR: stupid.server.edu [addr 555.555.555.555: hostname lookup failed] > > Obviously I replace the true name & IP with fake names. > > The IP is NOT CORRECT! Even in the /etc/hosts file, it has the correct > IP for this stupid.server. > > Any ideas on why amanda would think that stupid.server is the wrong IP? >
This is usually a reverse-DNS issue. What does host stupid.server.edu return? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
