Josh,

I think the first statement is true. I have many items monitored by hobbit which are not registered in DNS (I live with a bunch of windows centric team mates and they rely on WINS not DNS. None of these items end up with conn=red, but they are ID'd in the output from bbtest on the hobbit server. Here is that output:

DNS statistics:

hostnames resolved : 383

succesful : 306

failed : 77

calls to dnsresolve : 414

Notice that I have 77 monitored items which fail the DNS lookup.

  .....Bruce

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:55 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] How hobbit server deal with DNS server failure when doing conn test ?

Pretty confident if the DNS lookup fails it times out and marks the conn red =( If you don't need it to do a DNS lookup simply add testip.

On 3/19/08, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com <mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com> > wrote:

I remember somewhere in the manpages,

The hobbit server when doing fping conn test, it will try using FQDN and if not resolvable, it will use the ip address(from bb-hosts) file.

Is this a correct statement ?

I will summarize the answer here

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#Ho w_does_the_conn_test_work_if_the_first_ping_doesn.27t_respond_.3F <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#H ow_does_the_conn_test_work_if_the_first_ping_doesn.27t_respond_.3F>

tj

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