It is also simple enough to run DNSmasq on your BackupPC box. Setup is
REALLY easy.
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html
<http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html>^ has the man
pages, but the /etc/dnsmasq.conf file is well documented.
Kris
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 17:54 +0400, Paul R. Clark wrote:
> > BackupPC works with each of these clients when only one connection (wired
> or Wi-Fi) is active.
> > Note that both Wi-Fi (SSSS11) and wired (SSSS12) connections work well.
> >
> > BackupPC cannot find the client when both connections (wired and Wi-Fi)
> are active.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> What you want is DNS. I use an embedded router which runs DNSmasq. This
> provides both DHCP and DNS. It always matches hostnames (from DHCP
> requests) to DNS names, as well as reverse records. Thus my BackupPC
> server can just look for "ssss12" and find it, on whatever IP it has.
> You might consider it. You can do the same setup with BIND and DHCPd,
> but it is a lot more work to set up.
>
> The alternative is to use BackupPC's "DHCP" setting
> in /etc/backuppc/hosts. This causes BackupPC to scan the IP range for
> the host itself.
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
>
> --
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> anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
> -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein
>
>
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