RE: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails

[<doctor (at) makelofine.org>]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:16:02 +0900, "Everett, Vernon"
<Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au> wrote:
> It fixed both problems.
> It worked with the bbtest-net as it was.
> --no-ares is a standard option. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: doctor (at) makelofine.org [mailto:doctor (at) makelofine.org] 
> Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 3:59 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:43:58 +0900, "Everett, Vernon"
> <Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au> wrote:
>> This looks remarkably like the error we were experiencing.
>> What are you running on?
>> 
>> Do you have the case where all the network tests - ping, http, https, 
>> ftp etc. go purple?
>> If so it might be the same.
>> 
>> With Henrik's assistance, we resolved it down to a problem with the 
>> ARES resolver.
>> I changed our hobbitlaunch.cfg file to include the --no-ares option 
>> (see below), and we have never had the issue again.
>> [bbnet]
>>         ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>>         NEEDS hobbitd
>>         CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --no-ares
>>         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
>>         INTERVAL 5m
>> 
>> (Of course this does come with a caveat. See bbtest-net man page in 
>> Xymon docs 
>> http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bbtest-net.1.html )
>> 
>> YMMV.
>> 
>> Cheers
>>    V
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: doctor (at) makelofine.org [mailto:doctor (at) makelofine.org]
>> Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 3:34 PM
>> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
>> 
>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:24:29 +0100, "Lars Ebeling"
>> <lars.ebeling (at) leopg9.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Johan Sjöberg" <johan.sjoberg (at) deltamanagement.se>
>>> To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:04 AM
>>> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This night, after installing the new bbtest-net, we received an alarm 
>>> on bbtest for the Xymon server, saying " - Program crashed Fatal 
>>> signal caught!"
>>>>From hobbitlaunch.log: "2009-01-08 05:05:07 Task bbnet terminated by 
>>>>signal 6"
>>> 
>>> /Johan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If the program crash, you should have a coredump. Run gdb on the 
>>> coredump
>> 
>>> and post the result here, for Henrik to look at.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Regards
>>> Lars Ebeling
>>> 
>>> http://leopg9.no-ip.org
>>> Hobbithobbyist
>>> 
>>> "I am not young enough to know everything."
>>> -- Oscar Wilde
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Same issue on my side, i used the new compiled bbtest-net using 
>> corrected dns.c All is OK, but i got same issue with same error message.
>> 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had purple on all the net tests (ping,http, https...)
> Your solution to use the --no-ares option is with the recompiled
bbtest-net
> or with the original one ? (in fact , your solution fix the DNS test
> problem, or the massive purples one ?)
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The use of --no-ares does not change the errors "Timeout (channel
destroyed)" when using original bbtest-net binary.
When using the corrected one, seems to work. I'll wait to see if the
network tests still alive and keep you informed.