No such host is known (0x80072AF9)

[Nev V]

Hello There,

I wrote the post below in December 06, but priorities meant that I
couldnt act on it .. now I have the time to focus on it, and I was
wondering if anyone can help me. I am still experiencing the same
problem as shown below. I have tried it in Virtual PC 2004, VPC 2007, &
Virtual Server 2005 R2. In each case the same problem happens........

I'm trying out DPM v2 beta1.

My DPM is running in a Virtual Server guest. This guest is running
Windows Server 2003 R2 with 1G of RAM.

I was able to install the agent to a target server. I can add the
Exchange database to be protected.

The Protection Group gets created - and that's as far as it will let me go.

When the replica is in the stage of "Initializing" it goes like this for
hours, until I then realise it isn't really initializing. When I look in
Monitoring -> Jobs I see this error:

Type: Replica creation
Status: Failed
Description: DPM failed to communicate with
kew07.kingston.serverau.com.au because the host is unreachable. (ID 41
Details: No such host is known (0x80072AF9))
Start time: 3/12/2006 12:13:12 AM
Time elapsed: 08:28:21
Data transferred: 0 MB (0 bytes)
Source details: First Storage Group
Protection group: KEW07

Note that the status says "Failed". Originally the job is still "In
Progress" even when that error is originally displayed, which is
bizarre. I have to right-click and select "Cancel", and then the job
gets logged as "Failed".

I have tried running a consistency check ... but I get the exact same error.

The thing is that I can ping the protected server no problem
(kew07.kingston.serverau.com.au) from the DPM server. I also notice that
when the replica creation or consistency check jobs are running the
DPMRA process is running on the protected server.

These servers are separated by a WAN, and the link speed is 1 megabit.
There has been no traffic at all on the WAN when I've tried these jobs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nev

[Kapil Malhotra [MSFT]]

Nev,

The error seems to indicate that the TCP connection failed to find the host.
Are you able to TS from the DPM machine to the PS machine and vice versa?

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Thanks,

Kapil
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