Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/Vista 64 bit bacula

2010-01-03 21:07:14
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/Vista 64 bit bacula
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:04:33 -0500
Kevin Keane wrote:

> Oh yes, that was me. Ultimately, it's a bug in bacula; it has some 
> inconsistent default values: by default, the director tries to connect on 
> IPv6 when the machine has an AAAA record listed. But the FD does not listen 
> on IPv6 (in Linux, you can turn it on to make it work, in Windows, IPv6 is 
> not yet implemented in the FD). With the Windows firewall turned on, this 
> leads to a timeout. With the Windows firewall turned off, bacula finds out 
> about the failure of the IPv6 connection quickly, and switches to IPv4.

Well, in this case, bug is a subjective term.  Everything is working as 
designed.  It may be called stupid or dumb, but everything is working 
according to spec.


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