route statement in bb-hosts

Hi,

  I've been trying to use the `route:` statement in bb-hosts and it's
either not working, or I'm not understanding it correctly.

Here's a sample:

1.2.3.4    foo1 #
1.2.3.5    foo2 # route:foo1

So the ping test fails for foo1 and it goes red.  Ping fails for foo2,
but the failure is really due to foo1's problem and I thought my route
statement would make it turn yellow instead of red..  No  luck..

What am I missing?

Thank You,

-r