I am starting to look through the code to see if there is a variable I could use to always have ping use the address instead of the $host, but have not found one yet.
Or would this be a bad idea? It seems like it may work since what is registered in the DNS and Winserver do not match. Thanks On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Summers, James B. II wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On 3/5/2010 2:09 PM, Summers, James B. II wrote: >>> >>> >>> The configured ping command is: >>> >>> $pingPath -c 1 -w 3 $host >>> >>> and from the command line on the server: >>> /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 129.15.78.102 >>> PING 129.15.78.102 (129.15.78.102) 56(84) bytes of data. >>> 64 bytes from 129.15.78.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=1.46 ms >> >> Can you ping the name you defined for the host in backuppc? >> > > No I can not ping it by name, only address. I guess I thought that BackupPC > was doing it by addr or name as needed. It seems like that is how it is done > with the two nmblookup commands and using the same $host variable. > > Here is some commands and their output: > [backu...@rabin ~]$ /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 129.15.78.102 > PING 129.15.78.102 (129.15.78.102) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 129.15.78.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=1.34 ms > > --- 129.15.78.102 ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.343/1.343/1.343/0.000 ms, pipe 2 > [backu...@rabin ~]$ /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 jbsoffice > ping: unknown host jbsoffice > [backu...@rabin ~]$ host 129.15.78.102 > 102.78.15.129.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu. > [backu...@rabin ~]$ /usr/bin/nmblookup -R -U 129.15.1.120 -A 129.15.78.102 > Looking up status of 129.15.78.102 > JBSOFFICE <00> - M <ACTIVE> > WORKGROUP <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > JBSOFFICE <20> - M <ACTIVE> > WORKGROUP <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > MAC Address = 00-01-03-25-00-1E > > [backu...@rabin ~]$ /usr/bin/nmblookup -R -U 129.15.1.120 jbsoffice > querying jbsoffice on 129.15.1.120 > 129.15.78.102 jbsoffice<00> > [backu...@rabin ~]$ ping -c 1 -w 3 d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu > PING d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu (129.15.78.102) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu (129.15.78.102): icmp_seq=0 > ttl=128 time=0.194 ms > > --- d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.194/0.194/0.194/0.000 ms, pipe 2 > [backu...@rabin ~]$ /usr/bin/nmblookup -R -U 129.15.1.120 > d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu > querying d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu on 129.15.1.120 > name_query failed to find name d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu > > > So going through all of that it seems that ping will only work when it uses > the DNS and nmblookup will only work with responses from the winserver? > > Am I not naming the host correctly maybe? > > The pc's I want to backup will actually sit on a different 10.x.x.x NAT > network and will not have static entries. > > Ideas? > > Thanks Again! > > > >> Also, when you said you could do a backup from the command line, are you >> using BackupPC_serverMesg? If not, do you get some kind of error if you >> try it that way? >> > > The command that will do a backup is: > > BackupPC_dump -v -f jbsoffice > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01227.html >> >> -- >> Les Mikesell >> [email protected] >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. 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