On Wednesday 29 June 2005 21:45, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > Xavier Romero wrote: > > We had power failure on our backup box and since it was restarted and > > bacula set up again, bacula is logging that stuff on working/log file > > (and mailing that at one mail per line rate): > > > > .... > > 29-Jun 19:30 backups-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:187 UA Hello from > > client:16.0.0.0:36131 is invalid. Len=0 > > Something connects to the director. IIRC, bacula had some problems > displaying IP addresses, somehow IPv4 and IPv6 display were mixed up or > something...
Arno, the IP 16.0.0.0 was a simple display bug sometime ago in one of the first versions that contained the IPv6 code. It has been fixed for a long time ... > > You could try and use ethereal or tcpdump to watch the connections to > the director and see their source IP. > > Even if you can't identify the system responsible with the IP you could > feed it to nmap and have that do a OS guess, or check your firewall, or > whatever is necessary... I'd assume that the backup server got a new IP > address and something in your network remembers that IP to belong to > something different. > > I had something similar with a nagios check with a mistyped password. > Gave lots of mail - from bacula, and from the monitoring system. :-) > > Arno > > > Xavier Romero > > Departament tècnic > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > NEXICA. Oficines i Internet Data Center: Ausiàs Marc, 117-119, local 1 . > > 08013 BARCELONA. Tel. 93 265 44 66 - Fax 93 265 90 31 > > > > <http://www.nexica.com/> > > Aquest correu electrònic i qualsevol fitxer annex al mateix, contenen > > informació confidencial dirigida exclusivament al seu destinatari o > > destinataris. Queda prohibida la seva difusió, còpia o distribució a > > tercers sense la prèvia autorització escrita a Nexica. En el cas d'haver > > rebut aquest correu electrònic per error, es prega que es notifiqui > > immediatament aquesta circumstància mitjançant el reenviament a l'adreça > > electrònica del remitent. -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
