SUMMARY: Legato Client v7.22 on V240 running Sol 8 host name verification failure

From: Dennis Snyder <dsnyde27_at_jhmi.edu>
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 12:46:37 EDT
Hello all,
 
I believe I have things in order now....  I actually managed to figure
it out on my own with a small hint from Stuart Saxon:
Check your /etc/resolv.conf check your /etc/nswwitch.conf
 
Also try
 
Getent hosts backup_server
 
The resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf files were good....  but the getent
proved that gazoo (and not the others) couldn't pull the entry for the
backup server's IP from NIS....  investigating NIS (ug) showed that
SOMEONE had made a change and switched it's domain WHILE ypbind was
running...  so now NIS was configured as a server for a new "test"
domain but was still acting as a client to the old domain...  DUH....
 
So a /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop and /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart fired up
the correct daemons and NIS was running as expected and wallah - getent
now pulls both the backup server's name and the IP entries from NIS.... 
no more errors in the nsrexecd daemon log...
 
Thanks!
 
Kudos to Luc, Thierry, Bruce, and especially Stuart and Rich who had me
ROFLMAO while giving words of wisdom.  I hope I can give back in kind to
this group ;)
 
 
 
 
 
Denny Snyder
Systems Engineer, IT - JHMCIS
Mt. Washington, Davis Bldg, Suite 3110C
5801 Smith Ave. 
Baltimore, MD 21209
Desk: (410)735-7613
Cell: (717)586-5294
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>>> Dennis Snyder <dsnyde27@jhmi.edu> Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:58 am
>>>
Hello all,

I have 6 Sun boxes with the Legato Networker client ver 7.22
installed.
2 are V240s, and 4 are V440s, and they are all running identical Sol 8
installs.  The Legato client was installed with identical options on
all.  The 6 systems are tied togother via NIS running on the 1st V240
-
and 5 of them are backup up to the backup server(s) without error. 
The
2nd V240 (gazoo) is failing.  The /etc/nsr/logs/daemon.log shows:
06/19/06 11:53:54 nsrexecd: Diagnostic: Reverse DNS lookup failed for
host supersecret.backup.domain.dom, address nn.nn.nn.nn
06/19/06 19:01:09 nsrexecd: Host name verification failed - unknown
host: nn.nn.nn.nn

The other 5 systems could care less about reverse lookups and are
perfectly content to just shove all their data down the backup
server's
throat...  gazoo however, absolutely refuses to allow the system to
send
to the backup server since it fails reverse lookup verification.  In
examining the Legato docs on nsrexecd, I modified the startup script
to
add '-i' to disable reverse lookups and hostname verification.... 
which
changed absolutely nothing....  :(  yay legato...  big help...
Each system has the two backup servers in their hosts file.  Why only
gazoo?  How come the other 5 fire right up and backup with no problems?

(without the '-i' switch I might add)

Any 'Wile E Coyote - Super Geniuses' out there have any ideas...  my
name's mud at this point....  and Legato is about as helpful as a wet
mouse...

Color me frustrated.

Thanks for any and all help....



Denny Snyder
Systems Engineer, IT - JHMCIS
Mt. Washington, Davis Bldg, Suite 3110C
5801 Smith Ave. 
Baltimore, MD 21209
Desk: (410)735-7613
Cell: (717)586-5294
dsnyde27 at jhmi dot edu
AIM: wolverine9827
YahooIM: wolverine9827

Quote of the Month: "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working
the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get
into the office." - - - Robert Frost
Totally useless Trivia: Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more
than
any other mammal.
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