client talks to bbd@127.0.0.1:1984 ?!

any idea, anyone ?

On 7/27/06, Jerry Yu <user-764c1f364fe0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

just for kicks, I installed bind-utils package. same results.  I md5sum
the RPM to check with the original, and it matched. I re-installed the
package. same results. am running out of idea here now.
Next, I'll try to trace system calls, to see where it gets the idea to use
localhost instead.
this is freakingly crazy, ahwww


On 7/27/06, Jerry Yu <user-764c1f364fe0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

client named web6 has "127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain localhost"
server named moon has "127.0.0.1       moon    localhost moon.giggle.com
"

The server works fine for a dozen of clients. This web6 client is the
only one has this behavior and not sure where it gets the idea it should
connect to localhost instead of the server I told it to in
/etcdefault/hobbit-client?!


On 7/26/06, Brodie, Kent < user-8fbf1c81e97c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

  Check the server's /etc/hosts file.    RH has a bad habit of setting
the fqdn to 127.0.0.1…..   In my opinion, the server's fqdn should be
the external IP address, and only "localhost" should be 127.0.0.1….


Not certain this is your issue, I'll give my hunch a 50% success guess
J


*From:* Jerry Yu [mailto:user-764c1f364fe0@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:33 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* [hobbit] client talks to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 ?!


hi, there,
I have both client & server of 4.2-RC-20060712 on Redhat Linux 9.
Other RHL9 clients work fine. One, mysteriously,  failed to start.
hobbitclient.log shows it tries to bond with 127.0.0.1:1984 , as fails
miserably. As in other clients, I define the bb server's IP address in
/etc/default/hobbit-client.  -x execution of the init script seems it did
source the /etc/default/hobbit-client and got the correct bb server IP
address. Any idea ? This RH9 boxen doesn't have bind-util package installed,
that's the only difference I can think of.