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Hobbit doing DNS lookup instead of using bb-hosts address?

list Daniel J McDonald
Tue, 22 May 2007 13:28:57 -0500
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On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 14:18 -0400, Hobbit User wrote:
But it seems that if mail.subnet.net can
be resolved to an IP address via DNS, Hobbit will use the registered
address instead of the one in its own bb-hosts file.  So the test fails,
which is exactly the point of having the tunnel.  So to use the tunnel, I
have to use a bogus name.

Is this the correct behavior? 
Yes.
 Am I missing something?
Yes.  testip.  When the ip and domain-name conflict, dns is used unless
the testip option is specified.

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com