access denied error with rsync 2.5.1

[Martin Pool]

On 25 Jan 2002, Kenneth Wilder <wilder at oldmill.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Hi.  I have several Linux machines running the Debian unstable distribution.
> Until recently I used rsync version 2.4.6 without any problems, but after
> upgrading to version 2.5.1 (using apt-get) rsync fails.  
> 
> The command that produces the error is run on oldmill (128.135.72.4): 
> rsync -av --password-file=/etc/rsyncd.pw armada::rsync /backup/armada/home/
> 
> And the error is:
> @ERROR: access denied to rsync from unknown (128.135.72.4)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (71 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> io.c(139)

Hi,

This is a known bug in 2.5.1 relating to reverse name resolution.  You
can either upgrade to 2.5.2pre3 (by building the source), or wait for
2.5.2 to get into Debian, or work around it by specifying the
machine's IP address rather than its hostname.

-- 
Martin