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DNS lookup occurs even with noconn

list Japheth Cleaver
Fri, 11 May 2012 02:00:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <user-31915e2da339@xymon.invalid>

Hmm... Maybe. Will have to try it :)

It would have to be something like this then

0.0.0.0    soapro  #   testip noconn

Seems a bit counter intuitive... lol

Don't forget that xymon does more than just ping test (which is all
'noconn' modifies). There are a lot of scenarios where ICMP traffic is
blocked but you'll still be able to hit --thus, test-- port 80 or some
other service.

For those hosts, xymon still needs to be able to look up the IP address if
all it has is a name, so if you want to prevent lookup attempts on the
fake name you're going to need both tags.

Think of "testip" as "doesnotresolve"


HTH,

-jc