Have you tried using a bogus IP address?
On 4/15/2011 at 12:35 PM, in message
<user-aed4b423ef3d@xymon.invalid>,
FORD Alan
<user-eb925835b8b9@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi all,
I am running xymon 4.2.3 and I have found that when I have an entry
like
this in bb-hosts
0.0.0.0 Blah # prefer noping http://www.stanwell.com
it will still try and resolve the hostname Blah
This is causing my /var/log/messages file to get heaps of these
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving
'West10/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving
'Blah/A/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving
'West08/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving
'East06b/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving
'Blah/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
The xymon server is ictmon02, it is also a dns caching server which I
have
just enabled,
hence I spotted the above message for the first time.
Obviously the primary dns server was getting this error but probably
ignoring it.
Is there a way to stop trying to resolve a hostname for a specific
host/s??
Thanks
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