[hobbit] Very Weird ping issue

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Sat Sep 17 08:23:11 CEST 2005


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 05:15:12PM -0400, Wes Neal 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.

Hobbit always performs a DNS lookup on the hostname, and will use the IP
address returned by that lookup. So my first thought would be that
the wrong IP's are in your DNS (or /etc/hosts file).

You can override the DNS lookup by adding "testip" to the entries in 
the bb-hosts file.


Regards,
Henrik




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