Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > James Kyle wrote at about 12:00:46 -0700 on Thursday, August 13, 2009: > > I patched BackupPC_dump to look for bonjour clients. My apologies if > > this is not the most correct way to do so. > > > > What this allows is: > > > > If you have an apple client with hostname foo and Bonjour name > > foo.local, you can enter the client's name as "foo" and backuppc_dump > > will auto-detect its bonjour name. > > > > This makes it so that your clients don't have to run an smb service if > > you don't want to without redundantly entering .local for all your > > clients. > > > > untyped binary data: patch-bin-backuppc_dump.diff [save to a file] > > > > I'm not sure I would want this patch rolled into the sources since all > it really does is check 'hostname'.local and assumes if it exist then > it must be a Bonjour name. But in *nix world, 'foohost.local' itself is a > valid name which may or may not be related to 'foohost'. So this in > general seems more like a hack than a robust, general solution. > > I'm not sure what the problem is with just appending '.local' to the > names of Bonjour hosts in the Backuppc 'hosts' file. Alternatively, > just create the aliases in the /etc/hosts file or equivalents. >
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