Good luck, Paul. However, a stock BIND install on the server won't make it capable of looking up your local hostnames. It has to be tied in some way to DHCP for that.
One last, perhaps easiest alternative: use MDNS (Avahi / Zeroconf / Bonjour). Then just use "hostname.local" for your BackupPC target addresses. Zeroconf is easily installed on Windows PCs, and already comes installed on Macs and Linux. Regards, Tyler On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 08:22 +0400, Paul R. Clark wrote: > Thank you to Kris and Tyler for your suggestions. > > > > Both of you suggested using a DNS server rather than the hosts file. > In fact, I had already set up BIND DNS on the server (mostly properly > I believe), so I merely removed all the references to the laptops from > the hosts file without making any changes. > > > > Next week when all the laptops are back in the office I will test that > all works as planned. > > > > Paul > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Kris Lou > Sent: Friday, 15 October 2010 21:48 > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Two NICs In One Client > > > > > It is also simple enough to run DNSmasq on your BackupPC box. Setup > is REALLY easy. > > > > > http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html > > > > > > ^ has the man pages, but the /etc/dnsmasq.conf file is well > documented. > > Kris > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 17:54 +0400, Paul R. Clark wrote: > > BackupPC works with each of these clients when only one connection > (wired or Wi-Fi) is active. > > Note that both Wi-Fi (SSSS11) and wired (SSSS12) connections work > well. > > > > BackupPC cannot find the client when both connections (wired and > Wi-Fi) are active. > > > Hi Paul, > > What you want is DNS. I use an embedded router which runs DNSmasq. > This > provides both DHCP and DNS. It always matches hostnames (from DHCP > requests) to DNS names, as well as reverse records. Thus my BackupPC > server can just look for "ssss12" and find it, on whatever IP it has. > You might consider it. You can do the same setup with BIND and DHCPd, > but it is a lot more work to set up. > > The alternative is to use BackupPC's "DHCP" setting > in /etc/backuppc/hosts. This causes BackupPC to scan the IP range for > the host itself. > > Regards, > Tyler > > -- > "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in > anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." > -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 > The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly > Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that > run > across multiple browsers and platforms. 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