Re: [BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

Tod Detre <tod.detre AT maine DOT edu> wrote on 03/15/2011 03:30:21 PM: > Actually, that's not quite the whole picture. BackupPC does do dns > name lookup and those calls are not IPv6 compatible. Once such > instance is in bin/BackupPC_dump line 503. The gethostbyname() > function (at least last time I tried to do IPv6 with BackupPC) does > not support IPv6.

Ah, you are correct: you have to use getaddrinfo, but I'm not sure that Perl has been updated to reflect this...

> This causes BackupPC to try to do an nmblookup. If > your client doesn't have and IPv4 address and does not respond to > nmblookup, BackupPC will fail. However, if you do not use nmblookup, > you can just get rid of lines 496-508,510 and BackupPC will work just > fine.
I'd have to look at the rest of the code, but if gethostbyname fails, and if you remove the nmb stuff, you're left with a hostname. The question is, does the rest of the code work with a host name string rather than an IP address?

Timothy J. Massey


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