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Strange things?

list Henrik Størner
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:13:51 +0100
Message-Id: <user-5382599e6b48@xymon.invalid>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:02:32PM +0100, Ebeling, Lars wrote:
 
This is an extract from my bb-hosts file in hobbit:
192.168.0.2 leopg9 # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd http://leopg9/
192.168.0.100 Leo
192.176.5.1 Duni

This is suddenly reported:

Tue Feb 22 17:54:10 2005 conn ok 
 green <http://192.168.0.2/hobbit/gifs/green.gif>;  62.119.162.107 is alive
(0.46 ms)

A totally different IP-address. That my outside address.
Hobbit will always do a DNS loookup on the hostname to find the IP
of your host - the IP in bb-hosts is only a fall-back measure.
If you want to force network tests to use the IP from bb-hosts, 
then add the "testip" keyword to the bb-hosts line, or run bbtest-net
with "--dns=ip"

xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOME
This is unrelated, but it's an odd Unix system that does not have the
HOME environment variable defined ...


Henrik