Re: [BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2012-02-19 Thread Till Hofmann
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:35 AM, boospy backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: Hi, The solution is easy. You have to disable the pingcheck. For this edit config.pl, and search for $Conf{PingCmd} Then replace $Conf{PingCmd} = '$pingPath -c 1 -w 3 $host'; with $Conf{PingCmd} = ''; Ready!

[BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2012-02-18 Thread boospy
Hi, The solution is easy. You have to disable the pingcheck. For this edit config.pl, and search for $Conf{PingCmd} Then replace $Conf{PingCmd} = '$pingPath -c 1 -w 3 $host'; with $Conf{PingCmd} = ''; Ready! Backuppc is now compatible with ipv6. Greetings boospy

Re: [BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2011-03-17 Thread Timothy J Massey
Tod Detre tod.de...@maine.edu wrote on 03/16/2011 04:41:05 PM: I'd have to look at the rest of the code, but if gethostbyname fails, and if you remove the nmb stuff, you're left with a hostname. The question is, does the rest of the code work with a host name string rather than an IP

Re: [BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2011-03-16 Thread Tod Detre
I'd have to look at the rest of the code, but if gethostbyname fails, and if you remove the nmb stuff, you're left with a hostname.  The question is, does the rest of the code work with a host name string rather than an IP address? It did when I tried it, but it was on my home network with

[BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2011-03-15 Thread Vinz S
Hello, I'm using backuppc 3.1.0-9 on a Debian Squeeze server and I have some trouble with ipv6. When I define a record for a backup client it doesn't work, I have this message: Can't find host test via netbios. When I add a A record for this client everything is working. Can you tell me if

Re: [BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2011-03-15 Thread Timothy J Massey
Vinz S svin...@gmail.com wrote on 03/15/2011 05:13:19 AM: I'm using backuppc 3.1.0-9 on a Debian Squeeze server and I have some trouble with ipv6. When I define a record for a backup client it doesn't work, I have this message: Can't find host test via netbios. When I add a A record

Re: [BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2011-03-15 Thread Tod Detre
Actually, that's not quite the whole picture. BackupPC does do dns name lookup and those calls are not IPv6 compatible. Once such instance is in bin/BackupPC_dump line 503. The gethostbyname() function (at least last time I tried to do IPv6 with BackupPC) does not support IPv6. This causes

Re: [BackupPC-users] IPv6 support

2011-03-15 Thread Timothy J Massey
Tod Detre tod.de...@maine.edu wrote on 03/15/2011 03:30:21 PM: Actually, that's not quite the whole picture. BackupPC does do dns name lookup and those calls are not IPv6 compatible. Once such instance is in bin/BackupPC_dump line 503. The gethostbyname() function (at least last time I tried