rsync: connection unexpectedly closed; reverse lookups?

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Fri Aug 30 12:04:24 EST 2002


There were a lot of bugs in rsync 2.4.6 in those areas; upgrade to 2.5.5
first.

- Dave Dykstra

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:24:56PM -0400, Erik Enge wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> My goal is to use rsync to syncronize box1 and box2.  On box2, I have a
> tapedrive which I write the data I syncronize from box1 every night.
> 
> On box1, my /etc/rsyncd.conf looks like this:
> 
>   root at box1# cat /etc/rsyncd.conf 
>   max connections = 1
>   syslog facility = local6
> 
>   [tmp]
>       path = /tmp
>       read only = yes
>       comment = export of /tmp
>       hosts allow = box2
>       auth users = backupuser
> 
>   [tmp-open]
>       path = /tmp
>       comment = export of /tmp
>    
> The command I run is:
> 
>   root at box2# rsync -vvv --recursive --compress box1::tmp-open /tmp/box1-tmp/
> 
> [I get the same error with ::tmp and ::tmp-open.]
> 
> This is what rsync on box2 exits with:
> 
>   opening tcp connection to box1 port 873
>   rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (12 bytes read so far)
>   rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)
>   _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=150): about to call exit(12)
> 
> In /var/log/messages on box1, I can see:
> 
>   Aug 30 15:17:42 box1 rsyncd[7666]: reverse name lookup failed 
>   Aug 30 15:17:42 box1 rsyncd[7666]: forward name lookup failed 
> 
> I know that there is a DNS problem on my system so that would explain
> why box1 cannot reverse lookup box2.  My question is this, then: is this
> why I cannot rsync box1 and box2?  And if so, is there any way I can
> tell rsync to not try to do that?
> 
> System configuration: RedHat 7.2, rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24
> on Linux 2.4.18 x86.
> 
> Thanks for any replies,
> 
> Erik Enge.
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