Re: [BackupPC-users] DHCP problem

[Craig B. <cr...@at...>]

> Error: Can't find IP address for suslik  
> 
> suslik is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the
> netbios name of 192.168.2.153, and found that that machine is not suslik. 
> 
> Until I see suslik at a particular DHCP address, you can only start this
> request from the client machine itself. 
> 
> 
> 192.168.2.153 is the computer from where I forced full backup.
> 
> on command
> # /bin/ping -c 1 suslik
> PING suslik.sap (192.168.2.165) from 192.168.2.184 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from suslik (192.168.2.165): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.663 ms

So it looks like suslik is a machine with a fixed ip address.  Is that
correct?  If so, edit your hosts file so that the dhcp flag for suslik
is 0, not 1.  On the other hand, if this machine has a dynamic ip
address (eg, assigned via DHCP) then check $Conf{DHCPAddressRanges}.

Craig