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