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Q: unreachable or offline and then strange after changing local hostname

I have two computer. One is controller, and one is client.

After i change the local hostname by the sharing panel, in a minute, in the Xsan admin module ‘Computers’ of the controller computer,  the client computer's status will become 'Unreachable or offline' and its details will change such as  bonjour name.

But, why this will cause the client 'Unreachable or offline'?  From my test, if the local hostname is changed, the the bonjour service _xsan2client._tcp will also remove and re-register. In this case, the XSAN is some fool? Will it find client by service type or local hostname?

In this case, i do not know how to add this client into the XSAN again, because this client's bonjour xsan service type will always be _xsan2client._tcp even i restart the computer, for this, xsan admin will not find the client in UI(The unconfig client service type is _xsan2unconfig._tcp).

And there is another problem in this case. After a while in above case, the two computers in the 'Computers' module list will display the same, just as one computer(in this case two comuter's information are controller computer infomation). It's very strange. I have look up the config file in  /Library/FTPServer/FTPRoot/Users/myroot/Library/Application\ Support/Xsan\ Admin/MyXsan.xsan, found that two object 'computer' is the same. Is this a bug of XSAN.

Thank you for answers.

XSAN, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on May 22, 2012 2:35 AM

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