This is one reason you might want to run a DNS cache on your Xymon server. Everything gets looked up, every time.
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 7:46 AM Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk> To: Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com> Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Subject: client change of IP...
xymon 4.3.28
learned something new today!
We have a xymon client - lets call it FRED. FRED has its IP changed and so hosts.cfg is updated with the new IP.
BUT
the xymon conn test continues to use the previous IP to ping against.
It seems (my learning point!) that the conn test does NOT use the contents of hosts.cfg... but the dns resolution for the hostname (or at least primarily).
Only when the DNS was updated did xymon then use the new IP for the conn test.
Who knew? (Well, not me bit I expect all you probably did! LOL)
didds
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