2011/6/23 Kevin O'Connor <kev...@arc90.com>: > So I've followed that SSH tunneling article, but I see that the FD on the > remote server outside of the firewall is trying to connect to 172.16.x.x, > which is what the SD resolves to inside of our network. I've followed the > instructions in the article to add the SD FQDN to /etc/hosts to make it > resolve to 127.0.0.1, but somehow this 172.16.x.x address is getting passed > along. > Does the Bacula Director resolve that FQDN and pass the IP along instead of > passing the FQDN? I'm talking about what's specified in bacula-sd.conf. > Thanks! > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Dan Langille <d...@langille.org> wrote: >> >> On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >> >> > My setup is as follows: >> > >> > Bacula Server (DIR, SD) -> Firewall/NAT -> Server to be backed up (FD) >> > >> > The FD is accessible from anywhere, but the DIR/SD is not (NAT/FW). >> > >> > When I start the backup, the Director connects to the FD without a >> > problem, but then when the Director tells the FD to connect back to the SD >> > it fails because of the NAT. I'm in a situation where I can't get the >> > ports >> > forwarded, but it would seem that there should be a way to have the SD >> > connect out to the FD or something along those lines to get this working. >> > Is there a way to do that that I've missed in the docs or is really the >> > only way to get this working is to expose the SD? >> >> No, there is not. >> >> I highly recommend OpenVPN. It simplifies a great many things. >> >> >> -- >> Dan Langille - http://langille.org >> > > I would second Dan and suggest that OpenVPN is a cleaner method that using an SSH Tunnell. There is some more work to initially configure, but as you are creating a full tunnel, not just forwarding a single port, it allows you to run "anything" without modifying the application.
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