Network test performed on hostname instead of IP

Hi

I use xymon to monitor a couple of irc server from my network. The bb-host file looks like this :

1.1.1.1 irc1.domain.tld # telnet:6667 2.2.2.2 irc2.domain.tld # telnet:6667 3.3.3.3 irc2.domain.tld # telnet:6667 4.4.4.4 hub1.domain.tld # telnet:6667

I works great until today : 1/ irc2.domain.tld goes down => xymon send me an alert => Monitoring works great ! 2/ I change the DNS of irc2.domain.tld to "CNAME irc.domain.tld" (round robin on other ircX.domain.tld) to redirect user. 3/ 5 minutes after the propagation of the new dns ... xymon says that irc2.domain.tld is back online (which is right for the dns, but not for the IP address ...)

I check the "conn" page of "irc2.domain.tld", and it gives an ip from the round robin of irc.domain.tld ==> So, before making the test, xymon resolves the hostname instead of directly using the IP address.).

For me, the hostname is only here to show something "digest" on the web page, I would like to run every test on the ip (including conn and telnet on my case)....

Any idea on a way to change this ?

-- Nicolas G. / meepmeep [EuropNet.org Admin]