You will have to ask Henrik about why Hobbit doesn't use the bb-hosts settings.

You don't have to enter testip on every line, you can just define a ".default." host at the the top of your bb-hosts file and put testip in there.

Thanks, Larry Barber

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:44 -0500, wes.neal at mci.com wrote:

Larry you are correct! Thanks!

My next question is why is it using DNS instead of the bb-hosts file? Is there a way to make it only use the bb-hosts file and not rely on DNS at all? I always thought it used bb-hosts first. I don't want to have to add testip to every line in the file if possible.

Wes

-----Original Message----- From: Larry.Barber at usda.gov [mailto:Larry.Barber at usda.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 5:32 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Very Weird ping issue

What happens if you put "testip" in your bb-hosts file?

I suspect you might find that the names are being resolved incorrectly by DNS, try an nslookup from you BBNET machine, and see what you get.

Thanks, Larry Barber

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:15 -0500, wes.neal at mci.com wrote:

...

I am having a problem with out of the 600 or so hosts I have right now and
it is very odd.

The four hosts in bb-hosts look like this:

166.47.52.23 MIREGA-XYP # conn
166.46.11.1 NRKANG-XYP # conn
166.42.132.19 ALMMGA-AI #conn
166.39.161.143 ORLLFL-AI # conn

The all 4 show up as red on the web page, but with not those IP addresses.
As a matter of fact the IPs they show as aren't anywhere in my bb-hosts
file.
The emails that are generated even have the wrong IPs as well, they look
like this:

red Fri Sep 16 10:09:39 2005 conn NOT ok
Service conn on ALMMGA-AI is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
System unreachable for 9552 poll periods (3195617 seconds)
&red 10.8.2.126 is unreachable

red Fri Sep 16 10:09:39 2005 conn NOT ok
Service conn on MIREGA-XYP is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
System unreachable for 9552 poll periods (3195617 seconds)
&red 166.47.118.231 is unreachable

As you can see those aren't the IPs in the bb-hosts file. I have commented
out the lines in the bb-hosts file and done a:

bb 127.0.0.1 "drop MIREGA-XYP" for all of the hosts. This got rid of them,
but when I put them back in, they came right back red with the same bad IPs.

What could possibly be causing this?

Thanks
Wes

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