Dave Fancella wrote: > All, > > First: the backuppc website needs to be updated to reflect that this list is > a > members-only list. I originally sent this email without joining but received > the "Your post awaits moderation" email. So I joined the list and have > resent it. > > I have an interesting situation. It appears that backuppc is pinging hosts > by > hostname, but backing up by IP address. So what happens then is that the > hostname for my laptop (dhcp on the network) doesn't resolve to my laptop, > but for some reason or other it does resolve. It resolves to someone else's > machine out on the interwebby. So pings fail unless I increase the timeout. > Increasing the timeout is just a hack here, because it means I'm pinging some > other machine to decide whether or not to backup my own machine. > > You've got something wrong with your dns setup. Dont confuse netbios name lookups with dns related pings, they are completely different. What is your computer's hostname? what domain is passed down to the pc via dhcp, if any?
In an internal situation you usually create an internal dns zone, i like to use "lan". So you setup those zones on your dns server, whether it be on the backuppc server or another one. Then you tell /etc/resolv.conf to search "lan" and specify the nameserver. sounds like your internal domain is configured as a public one, and your backuppc server is set to look at internet dns servers first and has no local zone file. Hence the resolution to a remote address. Hope that helps. Regards, Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
