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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Greetings all, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I've got an ongoing issue that I just can't seem to get around where hobbit is reporting http timeouts on what I know to be healthy webservers.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've tried using badhttp in the bb_hosts file like so:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">192.168.1.219 server.example.net # smtp ftp <A HREF="http://home.example.net">http://home.example.net</A> badhttp:3:4:10</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I though this would clear up my problem as it should tern clear after 3 failures, yellow after 4 and red only after 10, but in practice, it still is skipping all stages and going right to red on I assume the first test. The "red" condition usually lasts only between 9 and 50 seconds, so it's very difficult for me to note machine state of the server and monitor system while it's happening.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> SO if anyone has a direction to point me in towards either getting badhttp to behave as I expect it or to get http monitoring to work out this intermittent error, you would be a hero to me.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Paul Bliss</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Network and Systems Administrator</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TechValley Communications</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">pbliss@techvalleycom.com</FONT>
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