Re: [BackupPC-users] Non-pingable host

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 06/01 05:03 , Klaas Vantournhout wrote:
> I think it would be better to change the ping command to the arpping
> command.  This way you can block ping requests on the clients (which is
> safer), and backuppc is still able to check if the pc is alive or not.

I would suggest that a better mechanism would be a TCP-based ping that
attempts to connect to the rsyncd or ssh port. Several such tools exist.
This is a more meaningful test, since it checks the mechanism which
BackupPC actually uses to do the backup.

Such tools are not universally available, unfortunately. 

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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