[Box Backup] bbstored/bbackupd communication ports

[Ben Summers]

On 20 Jan 2005, at 03:54, Robert Shaw wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> I think I understand now. bbstored binds to a specific IP address, 
>> not to localhost. So you can't (on homeserver) run "telnet 127.0.0.1 
>> 2201" but you can run "telnet homeserver 2201". Thus, SSH also needs 
>> to connect to the IP that bbstored is bound to, not to localhost. You 
>> can confirm this with "lsof -lnp | grep bbstored" on homeserver.
>>
>> Most services will bind to "any address" (0.0.0.0), thus you can 
>> connect either to localhost, or the private IP(s) of the server, and 
>> it doesn't make any difference to them. That's why IMAP etc. worked 
>> but bbstored didn't.
>
> Ah! Makes perfect sense now. Thanks for the clarification.
>
>> Sorry I misunderstood your network layout, it's late and I'm tired.
>
> No sweat. It's a bit convoluted anyway, I didn't expect anyone to get 
> it the first time. ;D

I'm glad to hear you got it all sorted out!

In addition, I think things were complicated by the times being out of 
sync on your server. The exception code you got meant that the SSL 
handshake didn't complete. If you get that just after install, it 
usually means that the time on the signing server is ahead of the time 
on the server and/or client.

Yes, I know, the exception codes need more explanation...

Ben