test ssh domain name instead of IP

That's a great idea but I run into the same issue.  The /etc/hosts file 
wants an IP too.  It doesn't seem to want to just link a short name to a 
fqdn.  I've looked into possibly using the resolv.conf to do what I want 
but haven't seen any examples of it actually working.  Oh well.  It's 
not that important.
Signature - Kris

Thank you.


Kris Springer


On 9/16/2014 2:44 PM, Mark Felder wrote:

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014, at 14:54, Kris Springer wrote:

Anyone know how to test ssh using a domain name instead of an IP? I'm
using the rclient and monitoring NAS devices that are remote and behind
port forwarded DHCP home routers that have DDNS names so I have 0.0.0.0
for the host IP's in the hosts.cfg file.  I just want to test ssh to the
DDNS name, not the IP.  The NAS host line in my hosts.cfg is not using a
FQDN as the hostname because that gets checked as a separate host.
Here's a sample of what I have in my hosts.cfg file.

0.0.0.0         myrouter.myddns.net     # trace
0.0.0.0         NAS                 # noconn ssh "RCLIENT:cmd(ssh -T -i
/home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient user-7bd5c34c7476@xymon.invalid),ostype(linux)"

If the server can resolve the hostname it will use that for the tests.
If you put NAS in your /etc/hosts file I believe it should work.