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Monitoring a laptop

list David Gilmore
Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:44:34 -0400
Message-Id: <008201c6574e$a71625f0$user-2de414585e5e@xymon.invalid>

I set it up to monitor a second laptop, collected some data, and then shut
down the laptop.  I have not received any bbtest errors related to the
second test unit yet.  I also checked the DNS setting on the Hobbit server.
It was checking the W2k3 DC first, then a OS X server second.  I removed the
OS X server and have not seen anymore errors about resolving for my laptop.

Dave
 
-----Original Message-----
From: hobbit-return-6222-david=user-9e293dd11111@xymon.invalid [mailto:hobbit-return-6222-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.
dk] On Behalf Of Rob MacGregor
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:36 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring a laptop

On 4/3/06, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I'll have to give that a try today.  I believe the Hobbit box is > configured to use the Windows DC for DNS.  If it is then that could > either be the problem, or the resolution.  Since the Windows DC would > have the last DHCP address cached in DNS it should provide resolution.
Any DHCP client should release it's lease on exit (ie shutdown).  This means that in a dynamic DNS setup (which you probably have) you'll find that once the client shuts down the name stops being resolvable.

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