What is the problem you are having with rclone?
I'm trying to set up rclone with an sftp server running on a raspberry pi (which I use as NAS) on my local network. I have avahi-daemon running on my Pi, and it has a hostname raspberrypi.local. When I do ssh pi@raspberrypi.local, I can ssh with no problems. But when I try to use sftp with it, I get the error pasted below because rclone seems to be unable to resolve the hostname.
Why is my rclone unable to resolve the local hostname? It looks like it's using some kind of public DNS to resolve the hostname? Oddly enough this wasn't a problem when I was running on the ubuntu-repo-default 1.50, but with the new version (which I installed to try and solve an unrelated issue) I get this.
BTW, yes I have tried replacing the hostname with the Pi's local IP (192.168.0.X) and it works, but that's very suboptimal since my router loves to change the local IP of my Pi.
Thanks for looking!
What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
rclone v1.55.1
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.16.3
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none
Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)
Ubuntu x86_64
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
SFTP
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
rclone -vv ls rpi:
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id = nope
client_secret = nope
scope = drive
token = nope
[stash]
type = crypt
remote = rpi:nope
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password = nope
password2 = nope
[rpi]
type = sftp
host = raspberrypi.local
user = pi
port = 22
pass = nope
A log from the command with the -vv flag
λ frank ~ → rclone -vv ls rpi:/media/external --max-depth=2
<7>DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/dan/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
<7>DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.55.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "-vv" "ls" "rpi:/media/external" "--max-depth=2"]
<7>DEBUG : rclone: systemd logging support activated
<7>DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "rpi:/media/external"
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 1/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 200ms
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 2/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 400ms
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 3/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 800ms
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 4/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 1.6s
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 5/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 2s
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 6/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 7/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 8/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 9/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
<7>DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 10/10 (error couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host)
Failed to create file system for "rpi:/media/external": NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp: lookup raspberrypi.local on 10.0.254.2:53: no such host