Running with "--no-ares" cured the problem; I'll just leave it this way until I do the rebuild sometime next month. After all, bbtest is reporting 359 dns lookups, a run time of 22.669 seconds, and a ping time of 21.018 seconds. It's not like I'm sitting on the host count a lot of the rest of you have.

Reading somewhat between the lines, I'm assuming this is normal:

2005-05-05 12:32:16 Task bbnet started with PID 26979 2005-05-05 12:33:18 Task bbdisplay started with PID 26999 2005-05-05 12:34:20 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27004 2005-05-05 12:35:20 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27026 2005-05-05 12:36:24 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27028 2005-05-05 12:37:18 Task bbcombotest started with PID 27031 2005-05-05 12:37:18 Task bbnet started with PID 27032 2005-05-05 12:37:28 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27039

bbdisplay firing up once per minute to build the displays, and bbnet running every five minutes to run the network tests.

Now to verify my alert rules work, and I'm home free!

Thanks for all the help!

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:21 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbnet terminating on signal 6

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:

The bb-network.log is interesting -- doesn't bbtest-net understand the 'noconn' tag? I've got my systems multiply defined, to allow groupings by function and groupings by site; the function groupings all have 'noconn' specified.

It does know about the "noconn" tag, but the way the bb-hosts file get parsed and tests added to the queue may not be quite as you expected. Suffice to say, I do believe it ends up doing the right thing :-)

I'll attach the log -- but this looks like where the problem hit:

Yes, it seems to be a problem in the resolver library. Just to verify that, could you try running bbtest-net with the "--no-ares" option and see if that keeps it from crashing ? I know this may cause bbtest-net to spend much more time doing DNS lookups, but I'd like to have the problem narrowed down as much as possible.

Thanks, Henrik

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