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How hobbit server deal with DNS server failure when doing conn test ?

list Josh Luthman
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:55:03 -0400
Message-Id: <user-849e8f3fedb8@xymon.invalid>

Pretty confident if the DNS lookup fails it times out and marks the conn red
=(  If you don't need it to do a DNS lookup simply add testip.

On 3/19/08, T.J. Yang <user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I remember somewhere in the manpages,

The hobbit server when doing fping conn test, it will try using FQDN and
if
not resolvable,
it will use the ip address(from bb-hosts) file.

Is this a correct statement ?

I will summarize the answer here


http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#How_does_the_conn_test_work_if_the_first_ping_doesn.27t_respond_.3F


tj

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