I get a very similar situation, of which I was just about to report!  Mine will be green for hours or days, then show up red for much less time (5-45 seconds).  I've mine set as default..<br><br>FPING="/usr/sbin/fping"
<br><br>I have testip on almost every single host.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Maschino, Shawn (SABIC Innovative Plastics)</b> <<a href="mailto:shawn.maschino@sabic-ip.com">
shawn.maschino@sabic-ip.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">



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Hi all, we are seeing a strange fping issue with Hobbit and I was wondering 
if anyone may have seen the same.</font></span></div>
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<div><span>    <font face="Arial" size="2">We have changed the IP addresses on a large number of systems we are 
monitoring due to moving them to a new location.  We updated the bb-hosts 
file to have the new IPs, and DNS was also updated.  However Hobbit 
occasionally falls back to testing the old IP for no apparent reason.  
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">    
This happens quite regularly as well, as seen here:</font></span></div>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:56:08 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:48:31 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="center"><font color="#ffffff">0:07:37</font></td></tr>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:48:08 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:42:27 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:39:53 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:36:49 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:31:57 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:25:27 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:23:58 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:19:19 
    2007</font></td>
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    <td align="left" nowrap><font color="#ffffff">Fri Nov 30 10:16:26 
    2007</font></td>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">    
The conn status page when green shows the correct IP address, and when red shows 
the wrong (old) IP address.  Nothing in the bb-hosts or DNS change during 
this time.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span>    <font face="Arial" size="2">I 
ran a "fping -AeC 1000 -i 5000 <host>" from the command line to see if 
fping was switching IPs, and it does not seem to be, even when Hobbit shows red, 
the fping from the command line still his the new/current 
IP.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span>    <font face="Arial" size="2">I've tried forcing a "testip" in bb-hosts to see if DNS was 
involved, and with that forced it still changes in Hobbit.</font></span></div>
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<div><span>    <font face="Arial" size="2">Any suggestions would be much appreciated.</font></span></div>
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<div><span>    <font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Shawn</font></span></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Josh Luthman<br>Office: 937-552-2340<br>Direct: 937-552-2343<br>1100 Wayne St<br>Suite 1337<br>Troy, OH 45373<br><br>Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
<br>--- Henry Spencer