Hobbit DNS queries

list Henrik Størner
Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:54:59 +0200
Message-Id: <user-9f2698a72cba@xymon.invalid>

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:14:01AM +0200, user-326ea6859343@xymon.invalid wrote:

I've modified hobbitlaunch.cfg and bb-hosts as follows:

[bbnet]
        ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --dns=ip
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
        INTERVAL 5m

but using tcp dump I still see an excessive number of DNS queries some of
which are causing errors in my firewall

Any http checks in your bb-hosts file ? These will use DNS, regardless
of --dns=ip or testip settings. If you don't want that, use the
"http://www.foo.com=1.2.3.4/"; syntax (see bb-hosts(5)).

Also, hosts with an IP of "0.0.0.0" (or other invalid IP adresses) will
trigger a DNS lookup.


Regards,
Henrik