client change of IP...

list Ian Diddams
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:26:14 +0000 (UTC)
Message-Id: <user-c44ba17ea42d@xymon.invalid>


xymon 4.3.28
learned something new today!

We have a xymon client  - lets call it FRED.  FRED has its IP changed and so hosts.cfg is updated with the new IP.

BUT
the xymon conn test continues to use the previous IP to ping against.
It seems (my learning point!) that the conn test does NOT use the contents of hosts.cfg...  but the dns resolution for the hostname (or at least primarily).

Only when the DNS was updated did xymon then use the new IP for the conn test.

Who knew?  (Well, not me bit I expect all you probably did!  LOL)
didds