From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 02:57:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0926B9F1 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CAD8DC5D for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail [192.168.5.2]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t0R2lIuD004929 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:47:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:47:18 -0600 From: dweimer To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Bacula 7.0.5 suddenly unable to resolve host names. Organization: dweimer.net Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net Message-ID: <2317b3435a1568d3c1e5d49c5dd01286@dweimer.net> X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1-beta X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:57:37 -0000 I have a FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p4 system running Bacula 7.0.5 in a jail. That suddenly (backups ran just after midnight this morning without errors) can't resolve host names. I was unable to run my commands to switch out my external hard drive for a new weeks worth of backups. After some investigation I was only able to get the system back up and running by editing all of my Bacula configuration files and replacing the fully qualified domain host names with their IP Addresses. I can do nslookup (have bind-tools installed in jail) and get the IPs for every host name instantaneously, so no problem with DNS. I can alos use the host command followed by the host name, no issues there either. Anyone have any ideas what to check as to how the system resolves the host names to IPs that might be broken causing the Bacula programs to have issues? I tried reinstalling the Bacula ports, rebooting the jail, nothing seems to resolve it, debugging doesn't issue any notice about name resolution, at debug level 300 it just lists a timeout connecting. Though I haven't been able to find much on baculas debugging levels yet. I may do more testing tomorrow evening with higher levels to see if I can get an error that means something useful. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/