those 1000 IP's were found in less than one millisecond - that would
be quite a feat if any DNS was involved.
Thanks. I was seeing two conflicting data points and didn't know which to believe.
specifically the "Tests Loaded" section. Does 20 seconds seem
reasonable for a bb-hosts file our our size?
No, it seems a bit much. My main server has about 1500 hosts in it,
and spends 4 seconds loading that file (actually, it is split into
about 30 files). If you look at the "bbgen" status, what's the time
reported for the "Load bbhosts done" line ?
From bbgen:
Load bbhosts done 1112648694.989501 0.178303
I'll try and fiddle with the format of our bb-hosts file and see if I can get anything to float to the surface.
Any particular reason you want to get below 60 seconds ? Are you aware
that Hobbit has a "re-test" script that performs more frequent tests
on hosts that go down ? When a network test begins to fail, Hobbit
puts that host on "frequent-test" list meaning that for up to 30
minutes that host will be tested once a minute rather than once every
5 minutes; so recoveries should be picked up faster.
We'll, the opinion from "on high" here is that the sooner we know something is having problems, the sooner we can fix it. Thats the main reason. I guess the second reason would be bragging rights ;)
Thanks!
-Eric