I have tried both clients with jobs already running and ones that don’t and the hang is reliable.
Up until recently I could check the status of any client initiated connection without issue. If this isn’t a problem for others this is a head scratcher about my site (other than enabling IPv6 on the WAN address of the NAT) what hange might have impacted baroes. Brock Palen [email protected] www.mlds-networks.com Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > On Feb 4, 2026, at 10:51 AM, Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Brock, > > We use that feature all the time here to backup remote worker, and it works. > But beware only when there's no jobs running, (otherwise it would need > another connection which doesn't exists). > Would that make sense in your case ? > > On Thursday, 29 January 2026 at 21:48:39 UTC+1 Brock Palen wrote: > So opening this back up, I don’t think it’s IPv6 related at all. > > I have disabled ipv6 for the director and storage. I have confirmed they are > not listening using netstat I also removed the AAAA DNS record for the > server. > > Clients using configs like: > Client { > Name = sue-hp-touch-fd > FDport = 9102 > Address = 192.168.10.6 > #Address = 192.168.67.21 > Catalog = myth_catalog > Password = “<snip>" > Connection From Client To Director = yes > Heartbeat Interval = 60 > } > > > > setdebug level=1000 trace=1 dir > > I’m getting errors like: > myth-dir (500): lib/crypto_openssl.cc:1544-0 SSL_get_error() returned > want-read > myth-dir (500): lib/crypto_openssl.cc:1544-0 SSL_get_error() returned > want-read > myth-dir (500): lib/crypto_openssl.cc:1544-0 SSL_get_error() returned > want-read > myth-dir (800): dird/job.cc:732-0 JobMonitorWatchdog 0x565b9f0369e0 called > > When I do > > status client=<client> > > For clients that use client initiated connection. Ironically their jobs still > run, but status fails and just hangs, and I have to break out of bconsole > using Ctl+C > > I have been using this for years I have tried giving the client a valid IP on > the local network (even though that’s not the hots address) and random > addreses. Behavior is the same. > > Machines that don’t use this or are on the same local LAN work fine. It’s > only the road warriors. It’s more annoying but I don’t htink it’s expected > behavior. > > Details: > *status client=sue-hp-touch-fd > Connecting to Client sue-hp-touch-fd at 192.168.10.6:9102 > Probing client protocol... (result will be saved until config reload) > Handshake: Immediate TLS, Encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3 > > <hang> > > > > > Brock Palen > [email protected] > www.mlds-networks.com > Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > > > > > On Jan 5, 2026, at 3:24 AM, Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos) > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, Just for information, I'm using ipv6 since years (>5) here on my > > network, and I've started 2 years ago to only use ipv6 for the backup, so > > bareos here is using 100% of the time ipv6. > > So for most of the task it works well, but I don't use the client initiated > > feature. > > > > I might give it a try next week-end ... > > > > On Saturday, 3 January 2026 at 23:29:36 UTC+1 Brock Palen wrote: > > We were modernizing some and rolling out ipv6 > > The bareos server always had ipv6 but it was not part of DNS nor allowed > > through the firewall. > > > > After adding it to DNS and opening up the firewall clients that connect > > directly over the wan (not over the VPN or local network) all use client > > initiated connections. > > > > They should show up even trigger backups but if you do: > > > > status client=<client> > > > > A large fraction would fail and drop the connection and come back later. > > > > Telling bareos director to only listen on ipv4 things started working > > again. > > > > I’m guessing I have created some sort of resolution/routing loop, and were > > actaully ok with ipv4 just more curious as rolling out ipv6 for our mail > > and everything else has been a learning experience. > > > > > > Brock Palen > > [email protected] > > www.mlds-networks.com > > Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "bareos-users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/f45c79ae-c09e-477d-983f-525fad705cb9n%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "bareos-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/ddb950cf-fab8-4bba-8bd8-7becd4bac142n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. 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