Boniforti Flavio wrote:

> Hello there.
> 
> I read the chapter "How BackupPC Finds Hosts" and I found out that my
> hosts don't get "found" if using the suggested
> 
> perl -e 'print(gethostbyname("myhost") ? "ok\n" : "not found\n");'
> 
> Thus I'm asking: how does BackupPC ping hosts which actually are
> accessed passing through an ssh tunnel?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Flavio Boniforti
> 
With ssh you have a tunnel to a port of your local host. You can't "ping"
this port.
What I do is to change backuppc's ping command $Conf{PingCmd} to
ssh -p <port> <user>@localhost whoami
where:
port = the port where ssh terminates ob your backuppc server
username = an authorized user on your client

br
Matthias
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