You can also add a runtime option to do testip globally, so that you don't have to add it to each host.
Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
Add the "testip" flag to each host and Hobbit will not try to resolve the name.
When you add the "dns" flag, Hobbit will test the DNS server on that host.
You might also keep in mind that DNS results are usually cached by the resolver on each machine until they expire, and this happens at an operating system level. However, Hobbit uses a specific DNS support package (perhaps to make the code more portable) -- I have seen it hang when the DNS servers are not exactly correct, so using "testip" is a good defence mechanism.
GLH
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