Johan,
The "purple problems" are a different view of this same error. Having experienced both I can say that you either get bb-net to crash or you find that all your remote connection tests (where bbtest-net verifies if a remote port is accessible) turn purple. Possibly you may get both at the same time, I haven't noticed that yet.
I can confirm that using the new dns.c code bbtest-net crashes on my Solaris 10 system whether I use the --no-ares option or not. 8-(
|\/|artin
-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Sjöberg [mailto:user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid] Sent: 09 January 2009 08:49
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
We did not experience any "purple" problems, only this single crash of the bbtest-net. But I suppose that several consecutive crashes would have caused the tests to go purple.
/Johan
-----Original Message-----
From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:user-9da1a1882f49@xymon.invalid] Sent: den 9 januari 2009 07:44
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
This looks remarkably like the error we were experiencing.
What are you running on?
Do you have the case where all the network tests - ping, http, https, ftp etc. go purple? If so it might be the same.
With Henrik's assistance, we resolved it down to a problem with the ARES resolver. I changed our hobbitlaunch.cfg file to include the --no-ares option (see below), and we have never had the issue again. [bbnet]
ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --no-ares
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
INTERVAL 5m
(Of course this does come with a caveat. See bbtest-net man page in Xymon docs http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bbtest-net.1.html )
YMMV.
Cheers
V
-----Original Message-----
From: user-d54077869176@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-d54077869176@xymon.invalid] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 3:34 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:24:29 +0100, "Lars Ebeling" <user-1fecd3eafd52@xymon.invalid> wrote:----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Sjöberg" <user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid>
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
This night, after installing the new bbtest-net, we received an alarm
on bbtest for the Xymon server, saying " - Program crashed Fatal > signal caught!"
From hobbitlaunch.log: "2009-01-08 05:05:07 Task bbnet terminated by
signal 6"
/Johan
If the program crash, you should have a coredump. Run gdb on the
coredump
and post the result here, for Henrik to look at.
--
Regards
Lars Ebeling
http://leopg9.no-ip.org
Hobbithobbyist
"I am not young enough to know everything."
-- Oscar Wilde
Hi,
Same issue on my side, i used the new compiled bbtest-net using corrected dns.c All is OK, but i got same issue with same error message.
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