On Saturday 23 October 2010 05:13:02 Dylan Vanderhoof wrote: > This appears to be a bacula-fd bug, as best I can tell. Perhaps somebody > can shed some enlightenment as to how I might get around it? > > We have a bacula server running v4 and v6, with an A and AAAA record. All > functional clients are IPv4 and are working great. > > I'm trying to add a hosts that backs up via IPv6. (It doesn't have IPv4 > reachability to the server) The client still dual-stack however. > > I can use FDAddresses in the bacula-fd.conf on the client to prevent the > client from listening on its IPv4 address. However, when I actually try to > run a backup, the client contacts the SD by name and ignores the AAAA > record for the SD. Even though the FD is not bound to an IPv4 address, it > still attempts to use IPv4 to connect to the SD, since there is an A record > present. Since there's no IPv4 reachability, the operation times out and > the backup hangs. > > Suggestions?
There is no connection between a client listening for a connection, and the client making a connection to the SD. It seems to me that if the SD name resolves to a IPv4 address, it is reasonable for the client to attempt to connect on that address. Why have an IPv4 address for an SD that is not listening on IPv4? > > Ideally, it seems is an FD is configured to only listen on an ipv6 address, > it shouldn't attempt to connect to the SD on IPv4. Listening and connecting are two *totally* separate things and are not related either in the ports they use are the bulk of the code they use. > (More to the point, I'd > think it would try to connect via whichever address family the server > contacted it on to kick off the backup) What every the case may be, I am not convinced this is a bug except perhaps in your IP resolution. Even if it is a Bacula problem, someone would have to propose a solution, which doesn't include your proposal which is not practical, and submit a patch -- I don't have IPv6 here so I cannot test it. Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
