On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:03:44PM +0200, Christian Schlüter wrote:

The hobbitd section reports the following status message:

Latest errormessages: Invalid client message - blank hostname

Now I would like to see the IP of the server sending this invalid client message to solve the Problem.

OK, added this for the next version.

In general the IP-Adresses of the senders should be checked by comparing it with a nslookup of the hostname, because it's a security issue when any host can send the reports for another host (It works - I just tried!) which could be damaged without that the HobbitMon notices it...

DNS lookups are expensive, and a host may not have a DNS entry at all. So it's done differently - check the hobbitd(8) man-page for the "--status-senders" option. What you've seen is just the default behaviour.

Regards, Henrik