Re: [BackupPC-users] unknown host ???

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Sam Przyswa writes:

> Le mer 28/07/2004 à 23:09, Sam Przyswa a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to backup a machine on a dynamic IP address and registred on a
> > dynamic DNS as mars.dyn.ac-fr.com but I got a message "Can't find host
> > 0com via netbios" and this is a Linux machine ???
> > 
> > How to fix this problem ?
> > 
> 
> I tried the give the name in $Conf{ClientNameAlias} but that's don't
> work even in 2.1.0 this var take only IP address !?

Are you using quotes?

    $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = '192.168.1.2';

or

    $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'host.domain.com';

are ok but this is not:

    $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 192.168.1.2;

Perl doesn't given an error: 192.168.1.2 in perl is a way of specifying
bytes in a string.

Craig