bareos error bsock_tcp.c bnet_host2ipaddrs() for host “bareos” failed

Posted on March 14, 2017  •  1 minutes  • 164 words  •  Suggest Changes

After setting up my first job in bareos, I got this error :

sysadmin-fd JobId 4: Error: bsock_tcp.c:187 bnet_host2ipaddrs() for host "bareos" failed: ERR=Name or service not known
sysadmin-fd JobId 4: Fatal error: Failed to connect to Storage daemon: bareos:9103
bareos-dir JobId 4: Fatal error: Bad response to Storage command: wanted 2000 OK storage
, got 2902 Bad storage

host2ipaddr should have given it away, but it still took some fiddling for me. I found out that bareos expects to have a DNS server set up properly to connect to clients and in this case to “bareos” (itself). If you are just testing, you can add the client/server’s directly in /etc/hosts or in Windows C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts but if you plan to go beyond the testing phase soon, it would be best to set up a FQDN that solves from both the clients and the server.

So quick and dirty :

/etc/hosts

add :

127.0.1.1 bareos

And the errors melted like snow under the sun 🙂