On 10/29/2010 4:19 PM, Dylan Vanderhoof wrote: > On 10/23/10 11:30 AM, "Dan Langille"<d...@langille.org> wrote: > > On 10/22/2010 11:13 PM, 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? >> >> 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. (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) > > Have you asked this question on the users mailing list? > > What version of Bacula are you using?
>> Sorry it took so long for me to get back on this. >> >> I'm on 5.0.3, ipv6 support is compiled in, and the client is correctly >> resolving (on an OS level) the AAAA and A record for the SD. If your host has both A and AAAA records, then it's expected to be providing services on both addresses. Actually, Bacula takes IPv6 in preference. Solution: if you are providing IPv6 only services, create a new hostname with only an AAAA record. Simple. Easy. No code required. -- 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
