Dave Fancella wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 5:54 am, Les Stott wrote: > > No domain, the computer's hostname is just "ghostwheel". I'm a home > user, so > I'm sitting behind a cheap linksys wireless nat router, with the router > configured as a gateway and all pc's use it as their dns server. >
ok, then it sounds like the linksys has a default domain and that resolves ghostwheel.whateverdomain.com. That happened to me when i had a linksys, but others are the same. > >> In an internal situation you usually create an internal dns zone, i like >> to use "lan". So you setup those zones on your dns server, whether it be >> on the backuppc server or another one. >> >> Then you tell /etc/resolv.conf to search "lan" and specify the nameserver. >> >> sounds like your internal domain is configured as a public one, and your >> backuppc server is set to look at internet dns servers first and has no >> local zone file. Hence the resolution to a remote address. >> > > Backup server has a local hosts file that only contains hosts with static > ips. > I certainly wouldn't mind having it update itself with dhcp hosts, if that > fixes it. I'm not in a hurry to set up a dns server, like I say, I'm just a > home user. I just want backuppc to ping the right host. :) I'm willing to > stop the samba service and have it do something else, and would have > preferred not to install samba in the first place on the laptop, but the > backuppc docs didn't help me do it for whatever reason (probably general > dumbness on my side), and I wanted it working. > > Probably the best thing to do then.....Set your hosts to be static, either by hard-coding in the linksys dhcp, or set the pc's as static. Then add host entires on your Backup PC server to /etc/hosts The server will look at /etc/hosts first before going to dns. That should do the trick. Regards, Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
