On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Tim Fletcher <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:44 -0600, Michael Coffman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have been using backuppc with great success until recently.
> >
> > Our company has been mucking around with DHCP and DDNS configuration
> > to support users migrating from a remote login to wireless to
> > hardwired ( I have not control or authority into this
> > environment).
> >
> > The end result is that backuppc for very mobile users seems to be
> > perpetually broken. As their laptop moves around it gets multiple
> > IPs associated with it and the forward-reverse lookups don't always
> > work. We have even had the case of a users laptop getting the IP
> > that had previously belong to another system and the IP had not been
> > flushed from DDNS cleanly - end result was laptop A backed up into the
> > location form laptop B. Has anyone else had to deal with this?
> > Any creative ideas for preventing this previous issue or for dealing
> > with ever changing system names? I believe that the right answer is
> > to fix our DHCP/DNS/DDNS environment, but I dont' think that's going
> > to happen. I am about ready to bail on backuppc for our highly
> > mobile users :( Not sure what I expect from the list, just kind of
> > grasping at straws at this point.
>
> Can you use mDNS aka Bonjour aka Avahi depending on the flavor of the
> implementation?
>
I am not really familiar with this but it looks worth looking into.
> If you can ping <machinename>.local then you might have a chance to make
> it work as the machine (normally) is the one that is replying to the
> mDNS request.
>
Not usually. When they get bollixed up, DNS does not always have an IP for
the original name.. I have 26 systems this morning that dig does not
return an IP on :(
> --
> Tim Fletcher <[email protected]>
>
>
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