Hello.
For any possible future reference: the part about the wildcard may be
correct or may be nonsense, but what actually solved the problem was
adding the “domain” entry in /etc/resolv.conf.
Sincerely,
Maxim
2012/2/1 haruspex <princeps.candidus AT gmail DOT com>:
> Hello.
>
> Thank you, you saved me from going insane. There was a wildcard DNS
> entry, and my hostname (say, “ivanov”) was first resolved as
> “ivanov.spb.ru MX <some-global-ip>”, instead of “nmblookup ->
> <some-local-IP>”.
>
> So the only remaining problem is with the truly unresponsive rsyncd,
> on the Windows 7 box. Can't connect even from localhost. Either I
> missed a firewall/antivirus setting somewhere, or the rsyncd doesn't
> like Windows 7 (and it is even 32-bit).
>
> Sincerely,
> Maxim
>
> 2012/1/31 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>:
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, haruspex <princeps.candidus AT gmail DOT
>> com> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Name resolution, via nmblookup. IP addresses are assigned via DHCP, so
>>> subject to change. So you are saying that connection would have
>>> established fine, but it tries to establish it with a wrong place?..
>>> An interesting idea. Now, how can the result of the BackupPC name
>>> resolution can be checked?..
>>
>> You just need to test things the same way to figure out what is wrong.
>> If dchp is set in the backuppc host file entry, backuppc should be
>> using nmblookup to find the name. For a quick check if things work
>> otherwise, you can put the current IP address in ClientNameAlias - and
>> if that makes backups work your problem is with name resolution.
>> There may be some things you can configure in the samba setup (like a
>> WINS server if you have one) to improve name resolution, or if the
>> hosts don't roam much you might be able to assign reserved IPs in
>> DHCP.
>>
>> --
>> Les Mikesell
>> lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
>>
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