On 9/13/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 10.09.2007 23:57,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > Hello again Arno,
> >
> > Today I just pulled down Kern's update to Bacula (version 2.2.3) and I
> > installed it effortlessly on my Xserve. I am running all three Bacula
> > daemons on the same Xserve machine. I edited the bconsole.conf file (to
> > change its "address" field by changing its value to the static IP
> > address of my Xserve). I did the same for all of the Address fields in
> > the Bacula Director configuration file (bacula-dir.conf).
> >
> > Even so, when I ran bconsole for the first time, I received this
> message:
> >
> > 10-Sep 21:24 apple-xserve-dir: - Console-.2007-09-10_21.24.24 Error:
> > bsock.c:182 gethostbyname() for host "apple-xserve" failed:
> > ERR=Authoritative answer for host not found.
>
> This *might* have been an old message still spooled - look at the time
> stamp. It is possible that this was from before your configuration change.
Thank you Arno, I believe you are correct. This message has since not
duplicated so it was probably an old message spooled.
>
> > Where "apple-xserve" is the host name of my machine. But none of my
> > Address fields in the config files have the value of "apple-xserve" any
> > more. I wonder what file the console is reading which causes it to
> > continue to attempt to use gethostbyname() with the name "apple-xserve"
> > instead of my server's IP address?
> >
> > How would I discover this, any ideas?
>
> Does it happen again, or was this a one-time problem?
Appears to be a one-time problem.
As long as you use IP addresses only in the configuration files, I
> don't see where name resolving can fail...
Thank you very much ... its a joy and a challenge to learn about Bacula!
Cheers,
-H
> Thanks!
> >
> > -H
> >
> >
> > On 9/9/07, *Arno Lehmann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 10.09.2007 05:12,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In Chapter 6.3.4 of the Bacula User's Guide, with regard to
> naming
> > > resources, the Guide states that:
> > >
> > > Each of your Bacula components must have a unique name.
> > >
> > >
> > > This is especially necessary when backing up a fleet machines.
> > >
> > > I didn't see any similar requirements that the Address fields of
> > > resources also be unique. Can anyone confirm this? For example,
> would
> > > the following (in the bacula-dir.conf file) have any conflicts?
> > >
> > > # Client (File Services) to backup
> > > Client {
> > > Name = myunique-machine-name-1
> > > Address = 192.168.1.25 <http://192.168.1.25> <
> > http://192.168.1.25>
> > > FDPort = 9102
> > > Catalog = MyCatalog
> > > Password = "YxR21sehW8stTml8RUKYAfln3WSVPoyvJVJ276RqXRmY"
> > > # password for FileDaemon
> > > File Retention = 30 days # 30 days
> > > Job Retention = 6 months # six months
> > > AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired
> Jobs/Files
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > # Client (File Services) to backup
> > > Client {
> > > Name = myunique-machine-name-2
> > > Address = 192.168.1.25 <http://192.168.1.25>
> > <http://192.168.1.25>
> > > FDPort = 9102
> > > Catalog = MyCatalog
> > > Password = "YxR21sehW8stTml8RUKYAfln3WSVPoyvJVJ276RqXRmY"
> > > # password for FileDaemon
> > > File Retention = 30 days # 30 days
> > > Job Retention = 6 months # six months
> > > AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired
> Jobs/Files
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > As much as it would be ideal to use a FQDN for the Address
> > fields, there
> > > are some scenarios where this isn't possible and there is a
> > concern from
> > > my colleague, about a collision in the Address fields. Hopefully
> as
> > > interpreted from the User's Guid, the uniqueness of the Name
> > fields is
> > > all that's required (but better to check ahead of time to be safe
> > than
> > > sorry later).
> >
> > I think what you intend to do would work. It's even a procedure I
> > suggested a few times, and nobody complained that it didn't work :-)
> >
> > Although, in most cases, I suspect you won't need this sort of
> setup.
> >
> > Would yo mind explaining why you think you need this?
> >
> > Arno
> >
> > --
> > Arno Lehmann
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> > www.its-lehmann.de <http://www.its-lehmann.de>
> >
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