Thank you to Kris and Tyler for your
suggestions.
Both of you suggested using a DNS server
rather than the hosts file. In fact, I had already set up BIND DNS on the
server (mostly properly I believe), so I merely removed all the references to
the laptops from the hosts file without making any changes.
Next week when all the laptops are back in
the office I will test that all works as planned.
Paul
From: klou AT axlmusiclink DOT com
[mailto:klou AT axlmusiclink DOT com] On Behalf Of Kris
Lou
Sent: Friday, 15 October 2010
21:48
To: General list for user
discussion, questions and support
Cc: PaulC AT tbsc DOT ge
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Two
NICs In One Client
It is also simple enough to run DNSmasq on your BackupPC box.
Setup is REALLY easy.
^ has the man pages, but the /etc/dnsmasq.conf file is well
documented.
Kris
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at
17:54 +0400, Paul R. Clark wrote:
> BackupPC works with each of these clients when only one connection (wired
or Wi-Fi) is active.
> Note that both Wi-Fi (SSSS11) and wired (SSSS12) connections work well.
>
> BackupPC cannot find the client when both connections (wired and Wi-Fi)
are active.
Hi Paul,
What you want is DNS. I use an embedded router which runs DNSmasq. This
provides both DHCP and DNS. It always matches hostnames (from DHCP
requests) to DNS names, as well as reverse records. Thus my BackupPC
server can just look for "ssss12" and find it, on whatever IP it has.
You might consider it. You can do the same setup with BIND and DHCPd,
but it is a lot more work to set up.
The alternative is to use BackupPC's "DHCP" setting
in /etc/backuppc/hosts. This causes BackupPC to scan the IP range for
the host itself.
Regards,
Tyler
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