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Hobbit doing DNS lookup instead of using bb-hosts address?

list Henrik Størner
Tue, 22 May 2007 21:27:50 +0200
Message-Id: <user-591b32a15220@xymon.invalid>

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:53:45PM -0400, Hobbit User wrote:
Yes.  testip.  When the ip and domain-name conflict, dns is used unless
the testip option is specified.
Thanks.  Works like a charm.  Is there doc on that?  The bb-hosts manpage
refers to testip functionality only when stating that the http tests
ignore it.  
That was an omission on my part - fixed now.
My perusing of the list archives seemed to indicate that
Hobbit used the bb-hosts IP address unless it was 0.0.0.0, in which case
it did a lookup.  Which makes more sense to me than the actual behavior of
having to tag the line to get the IP address on it to be used for
anything.
I have it just the other way around :-) I'd rather not have to remember
IP's for all of my hosts - that's what DNS is for. So had it not been
for compatibility with the BB bb-hosts format, I'd probably have removed
the IP address entirely from bb-hosts.


Regards,
Henrik