WARNING: Runtime longer than time limit / DNS Timeout

[John]

No ideas anyone? I have a couple hosts offline for various reasons and
my bbtest runtime is over 700 at the moment. I haven't had any luck
figuring this out.

Another piece of info, if I click on the 'dns' status column for one
of these hosts it shows the following:
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clear  Fri Mar 5 08:17:54 2010 dns ok : Ping failed, or dialup host/service

Service dns on <HOSTNAME1> is OK
Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test
Host appears to be down

Timeout

Seconds: 225.004
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This just can't be normal behavior.


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, John <xymon.user.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having an issue where my bbtest column is turning yellow if I have
> a host or three offline, saying "WARNING: Runtime 485 longer than time
> limit (300)". Just below this it breaks down how long bbtest-net takes
> on each type of test, it "says DNS tests executed" is 452 seconds. I
> added "--debug --dns-timeout=15
> --dnslog=/var/log/hobbit/bbtest-dns.log" to the bbtest-net command in
> the hobbitlaunch.cfg file, and I can see the following in my
> bb-network.log:
>
> 2010-02-24 14:27:54 ares_search: tlookup='[HOSTNAME1]', class=1, type=1
> 2010-02-24 14:27:54 Processing 0 DNS lookups with ARES
> 2010-02-24 14:35:24 Finished ARES queue after loop 1285
>
> My bbtest-dns.log is strangely empty.
>
> This is a remote host that is down (they lost power or something),
> which unfortunately does happen from time to time. I have a couple
> other hosts down in a similar fashion that report the same 7 and a
> half minute delay in this log file. I have hundreds of other hosts
> that are up that successfully complete their DNS lookup in a fraction
> of a second. I do not understand why it is taking 7 and a half minutes
> to fail it's dns lookup. I would love to figure out how to have it
> give up and fail a little quicker. I thought the --dns-timeout=15
> would accomplish this but it is not. At the moment I am not running
> with the --no-ares option. I attempted to turn that option on but I
> was still seeing the exact same behavior in the bb-network.log.
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm missing, or if this is a bug?
>
> Thanks
>