I am starting to look through the code to see if there is a variable I could 
use to always have ping use the address instead of the $host, but have not 
found one yet.

Or would this be a bad idea?  It seems like it may work since what is 
registered in the DNS and Winserver do not match.

Thanks


On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Summers, James B. II wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
>> net/msg01227.html
>> 
>> -- 
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>>   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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