Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> James Kyle wrote at about 12:00:46 -0700 on Thursday, August 13, 2009:
>  > I patched BackupPC_dump to look for bonjour clients. My apologies if  
>  > this is not the most correct way to do so.
>  > 
>  > What this allows is:
>  > 
>  > If you have an apple client with hostname foo and Bonjour name  
>  > foo.local, you can enter the client's name as "foo" and backuppc_dump  
>  > will auto-detect its bonjour name.
>  > 
>  > This makes it so that your clients don't have to run an smb service if  
>  > you don't want to without redundantly entering .local for all your  
>  > clients.
>  > 
>  > untyped binary data: patch-bin-backuppc_dump.diff [save to a file]
>  > 
> 
> I'm not sure I would want this patch rolled into the sources since all
> it really does is check 'hostname'.local and assumes if it exist then
> it must be a Bonjour name. But in *nix world, 'foohost.local' itself is a
> valid name which may or may not be related to 'foohost'. So this in
> general seems more like a hack than a robust, general solution.
> 
> I'm not sure what the problem is with just appending '.local' to the
> names of Bonjour hosts in the Backuppc 'hosts' file. Alternatively,
> just create the aliases in the /etc/hosts file or equivalents.
> 

This should be even easier:
echo "search local" >> /etc/resolv.conf

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