On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On 3/5/2010 2:09 PM, Summers, James B. II wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The configured ping command is:
>> 
>> $pingPath -c 1 -w 3 $host
>> 
>> and from the command line on the server:
>> /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 129.15.78.102
>> PING 129.15.78.102 (129.15.78.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from 129.15.78.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=1.46 ms
> 
> Can you ping the name you defined for the host in backuppc?
> 

No I can not ping it by name, only address.  I guess I thought that BackupPC 
was doing it by addr or name as needed.  It seems like that is how it is done 
with the two nmblookup commands and using the same $host variable.

Here is some commands and their output:
[backuppc@rabin ~]$ /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 129.15.78.102
PING 129.15.78.102 (129.15.78.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 129.15.78.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=1.34 ms

--- 129.15.78.102 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.343/1.343/1.343/0.000 ms, pipe 2
[backuppc@rabin ~]$ /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 jbsoffice
ping: unknown host jbsoffice
[backuppc@rabin ~]$ host 129.15.78.102
102.78.15.129.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu.
[backuppc@rabin ~]$ /usr/bin/nmblookup -R -U 129.15.1.120 -A 129.15.78.102
Looking up status of 129.15.78.102
        JBSOFFICE       <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        WORKGROUP       <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
        JBSOFFICE       <20> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        WORKGROUP       <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 

        MAC Address = 00-01-03-25-00-1E

[backuppc@rabin ~]$ /usr/bin/nmblookup -R -U 129.15.1.120 jbsoffice
querying jbsoffice on 129.15.1.120
129.15.78.102 jbsoffice<00>
[backuppc@rabin ~]$ ping -c 1 -w 3 d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu
PING d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu (129.15.78.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu (129.15.78.102): icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 
time=0.194 ms

--- d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.194/0.194/0.194/0.000 ms, pipe 2
[backuppc@rabin ~]$ /usr/bin/nmblookup -R -U 129.15.1.120 
d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu
querying d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu on 129.15.1.120
name_query failed to find name d-ip-129-15-78-102.cs.ou.edu


So going through all of that it seems that ping will only work when it uses the 
DNS and nmblookup will only work with responses from the winserver?

Am I not naming the host correctly maybe?  

The pc's I want to backup will actually sit on a different 10.x.x.x NAT network 
and will not have static entries.

Ideas?

Thanks Again!



> Also, when you said you could do a backup from the command line, are you 
> using BackupPC_serverMesg?  If not, do you get some kind of error if you 
> try it that way?
> 

The command that will do a backup is:

BackupPC_dump -v -f jbsoffice

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