Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Two installation problems, btape & bacula-fd

2008-08-28 18:38:17
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Two installation problems, btape & bacula-fd
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Jonathan Sachs" <jhsachs177 AT sbcglobal DOT net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:38:11 -0400
> This is probably a dumb newbie question, but if I can't identify my own
> computer as localhost or as 127.0.0.1, how can I identify it?  I will
> investigate whether I have a static IP address, but I suspect that I do not.
>
The external ip address of the NIC. Using localhost or 127.0.0.1 in
any bacula config file will prevent you from being able to use
whatever resource from the external network since 127.0.0.1 is seen as
a completely different network.

John

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