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I have a setup that I use for backups, and right now one of the servers that needs to back up can't seem to connect to the rsync server. I know all the possible IP's the server could use, so I added a hosts allow line (since I deny connections by default) to include all possible IP ranges. The system still says it times out when trying to contact the rsync server. I figured the config file would use the same syntax as Samba, so i have a line that looks like: hosts allow = 10.0.0.0/24 10.0.2.0/24 12.1.4.0/24 (The IP's aren't the real IP's I use obviously) Unfortunately, rsync doesn't give errors when unauthorized clients try to connect, so I can't tell if the client is even contacting the server, and if so, what IP it's coming from. I'm wondering if the format of my hosts allow line is incorrect? Should it be seperated by commas, or should it be enclosed in quotes? There's no mention of how to properly put more than one host on a hosts allow directive. Also, I like the ability to use --address for the server so it only binds to the specific IP/device, however it would be even nicer if the client would allow this sort of action too so I could force the client to use a specific IP (sometimes our servers have messed up routing tables and the requests goes out one of the 500+ IP's, but never the default server IP!). Side note: I quickly read through the TODO list, and the feature that really looked nice is the part about traversing directories once rather than having it do whatever in memory first then transfer files. The reason this is really nice is on a first time backup of lots of files, it takes FOREVER for it to do anything (rsync'ing about 8GB of data is a lovely little task!). Anyways, thanks in advance for any help! Eli. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
