[hobbit] Very Weird ping issue

Wes Neal wes.neal at mci.com
Fri Sep 16 23:44:15 CEST 2005


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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