Hi all,

I figured out how to get this going. Required a change to bbtest-net.c (this is for 4.2.3 but I'm guessing it's the same for 4.3 et al)

Here is the diff....

680c680 < if (pingtest && !h->noconn && !h->noping) {

          if (pingtest && !h->noconn) {

776c776 < if (!h->noping && !h->testip && (dnsmethod != IP_ONLY)) add_host_to_dns_queue(h->hostname);

                  if (!h->testip && (dnsmethod != IP_ONLY)) 

add_host_to_dns_queue(h->hostname);

Thanks Alf

-----Original Message----- From: Phil Crooker [mailto:Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au] Sent: Monday, 18 April 2011 9:21 AM To: FORD Alan Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] noping in bbhost still tries to resolve hostname.

Have you tried using a bogus IP address?

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On 4/15/2011 at 12:35 PM, in message <EB370D01A988C44B8A093001DB472DA728C59581 at DC1EXCMBX01.STANWELL.com>, FORD Alan <Alan.FORD at stanwell.com> wrote: Hi all,

I am running xymon 4.2.3 and I have found that when I have an entry like this in bb-hosts

0.0.0.0 Blah # prefer noping http://www.stanwell.com

it will still try and resolve the hostname Blah

This is causing my /var/log/messages file to get heaps of these

Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving

'West10/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53 Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving

'Blah/A/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving

'West08/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53 Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving

'East06b/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53 Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving

'Blah/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53

The xymon server is ictmon02, it is also a dns caching server which I have just enabled, hence I spotted the above message for the first time.

Obviously the primary dns server was getting this error but probably

ignoring it.

Is there a way to stop trying to resolve a hostname for a specific host/s??

Thanks

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