On 10/23/2010 6:48 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Dylan, > > Excerpts from Dylan Vanderhoof's message of 2010-10-23 05:13:02 +0200: >> 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? > For such cases, I have a different SD directive in my bacula-dir.conf which > uses an additional hostname that contains only the AAAA record.
This sounds like the best course of action. > However, I agree with you that this bug should be fixed. On this, we disagree. The solution to this problem is simple and easily achieved. To solve the situation in code adds needless complexity to what is a simple situation. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
