[xymon] IP address - from where?

In <AANLkTilWTJuol2MySad94PouqUt8ud65rGZqU1viZkaL at mail.gmail.com> Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> writes:

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.

Are you using a local DNS resolver, or a remote one ? Xymon tends to hit DNS servers pretty hard when starting all the network tests, so I strongly recommend using a local DNS cache.

It could be a bug in the C-ARES library, of course.

Henrik