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 <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, haruspex <[email protected]> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! >> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
