Hi Rolf,

you can use 0.0.0.0 as the IP to force a DNS-lookup in all cases. Some (all?) versions of Xymon require the testip-flag to prevent DNS-lookups for the conn test. Something like

0.0.0.0 host.tld # testip

should do the trick for you.

Note that testip is for the conn-check only — the http-check for instance does not honour it (but that’s what you want anyway).

Cheers Thomas

On 22 Sep 2016, at 12:34, Rolf Schrittenlocher <schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:

Hi,

in the man-page I read:

"The format of an entry in the hosts.cfg file is as follows:

IP-address hostname # tag1 tag2 ..."

is there a way to use "hostname hostname # ..." instead? Reason is monitoring a service where the IP often changes.

Thanks for help, Rolf

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