Larry,
As default Hobbit does use ares resolver library. Maybe it's
having some trouble who your nslookup doesn't showup.
You can play with two bbtest-net options, to help give a litle
more info on this issues...
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--no-ares
Disable the ARES resolver built into bbtest-net. This makes bbtest-net resolve hostnames using your system resolver function. You should only use
this as a last resort if bbtest-net cannot resolve the hostnames you use in the normal way (via DNS or /etc/hosts). One reason for using this would
be if you need to resolve hostnames via NIS/NIS+ (a.k.a. Yellow Pages).
The system resolver function does not provide a mechanism for controlling timeouts of the hostname lookups, so if your DNS or NIS server is down,
bbtest-net can take a very long time to run. The --dns-timeout option is effectively disabled when using this option.
--dnslog=FILENAME
Log failed hostname lookups to the file FILENAME. FILENAME should be a full pathname.
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And you can play a litle with:
cd ~server/bin
"./bbcmd bbtest-net --debug ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov"
-wm
----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
From: "Larry Barber" <user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid>
To: hobbit <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:52:09 -0500
Subject: [hobbit] trouble with name resolution
----
I am having a problem getting "Unable to resolve hostname" errors for the conn test for names that are in our DNS system. The bb-hosts entry looks like:
<http://0.0.0.0>0.0.0.0 <http://ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov # conn
the return from nslookup is:
-bash-2.05b$ nslookup <http://ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov
Server: <http://199.128.64.2>199.128.64.2
Address: 199.128.64.2#53
Non-authoritative answer:
<http://ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov canonical name = <http://ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov.
Name: <http://ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov
Address: <http://199.134.228.6>199.134.228.6
Any ideas how to correct this?
Thanks,
Larry Barber