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case sensitive bb-hosts?

list Galen Johnson
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:38:53 -0400
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Not sure if this has come up before but I ran into an issue that I would consider a bug...others may not as it's more of an annoyance.  After setting up 4.2 and a BBWin machine I kept getting a ghost machine listed under the hobbitd montor.  I had entered abc1.fqdn.test.com into the bbhosts file...I got my connection and http info...I checked the hobbitd monitor and saw a "ghost" ABC1...then I changed the entry to abc1...same output...once I changed the entry in bb-hosts to ABC1 (an exact match of the ghost in hobbitd), hobbit displayed the monitors as I would expect it to.

The fact that bb-hosts is case sensitive came as a bit of a surprise.  I would think you would want to run it through tolower...is there a reason it was set to be case sensitive?  I can't think of a good reason for it to do so.

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