> On Friday 17 August 2007 04:46:24 pm you wrote:
> > > where x.x.x.227 is client's external NIC address, x.x.x.136 is bacula
> > > server's external address; 192.168.0.{253,200} are the corresponding
> > > private addresses. As you can see, while fd daemon on client has indeed
> > > been bound to the private address, it still uses external one for
> > > communicating with sd daemon on the remote bacula server. I've been
> > > through all configuration options to no avail. Unfortunately, binding sd
> > > on the server to private net only is not an option since it also has
> > > numerous other clients configured, that are only accessible via external
> > > net (desktop boxes all around the building, etc). Is there any solution?
> > > I am running bacula 1.36.1.
> >
> > The FD is told to connect to the "Address" from the Director's Storage
> > resource, so maybe you can set that to something that resolves to the
> > internal network on the dual-NIC clients?
>
> AFAIK, in this case SD will always attempt to connect via internal network
> upon request from any clients and that won't work for (the majority of) my
> clients that are on external network. I am assuming there is no way to
> specify multiple aliases for the same Storage resource in bacula-dir.conf,
> but with different Addresses. Anyway, such setting clearly belongs to
> client's configuration, so I consider it a bug. FD should ensure that all of
> its communications with other daemons go exclusively through the network
> address specified in its conf file (if any). But I have no clue how to
> implement this since current bacula networking model obviously contradicts.
>
I use the client's hosts file to take care of directing the client to
the right address.
--
Kenny Dail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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