Hi Henrik
Thanks for that. If I recall, about 2 or 3 years ago, it was you who told me that it first does a name lookup. Larry, sorry I didn't take you on your word. Although I was sure you were right, it contradicted what we were seeing here.
Tried another test, and set the server IP to 0.0.0.0 in bb-hosts, and it all went red again. :-(
It seems to resolve using nslookup on CLI, but not in bbtest.net Eventually added the --no-ares option, and all is good in our again.
This is the second time I have seen this issue. Any idea what causes it?
Cheers Vernon
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:36:12 +0800, Vernon Everett wrote:
Probably need some of the coder types to answer this one for me. For the different network tests, where does Xymon get the IP address from?
If the host has a "testip", Xymon uses the IP in bb-hosts.
Otherwise it tries a DNS lookup on the hostname, and uses the IP returned from that. If the DNS lookup fails, it will fall back to the IP listed in bb-hosts.
Henrik
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