On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:24:49PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Charles Curley schreef:
> > > >Nothing other than the problem I've already asked about & to which > >I've gotten no answer: Is the client trying to connect to > >0.0.0.0.50509? And if so, where is that set up? > > 0.0.0.0 means the amandad process is listening on any interface > (not only 127.0.0.1 or not only 192.169.0.1 etc.). Thank you. that helps. > > The normal conversation for "sendbackup" goes like this: > The server sends a UDP packet "sendbackup" request, and the DLE that it > wants to do, together with some options used, e.g. if it wants indexes > generated too. > The client then prepares two or three tcp-connections: one for data, for > error messages (which also contains the "Total size" line), and, if > needed, a connections transferring the indexes. > The client responds with a UDP packet on which ports these TCP > connections will be listening. > The server then needs to connect to each of these ports on the client. > > And there is seems to fail. Thank you. > > As you said, you are using iptables, so problably the the packets are > being blocked by iptables. > > To solve: > > 1. Easiest: load iptables helper module ip_conntrack_amanda: > modprobe ip_conntrack_amanda > (which will inspect the conversation above and open those two or > three ports selectively as needed). Thank you. That solved the problem. It never occured to me to look for such a beast. I'd have responded sooner, but I waited until I had four level 0 backups from the client completed in order to be sure. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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