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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Neither. It tries DNS, then it tries the
IP address in the bb-hosts file. If it can ping the IP address it sets the
conn dot to green. The only place I have found that reports it could not
resolve the name via DNS is in the output I copied into my email.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 19, 2008
10:14 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] How hobbit
server deal with DNS server failure when doing conn test ?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So if it can not resolve
DNS, is it yellow instead of red?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 3/19/08, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>White,
Bruce</span></b> <<a href="mailto:bewhite@fellowes.com">bewhite@fellowes.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I think the first statement is true.
I have many items monitored by hobbit which are not registered in DNS (I live
with a bunch of windows centric team mates and they rely on WINS not
DNS. None of these items end up with conn=red, but they are ID'd in
the output from bbtest on the hobbit server. Here is that output:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>DNS statistics:<br>
# hostnames resolved : 383<br>
# succesful
: 306<br>
#
failed
: 77<br>
# calls to dnsresolve : 414<br>
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</span></font><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Notice that I have 77 monitored items which fail
the DNS lookup.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> .....Bruce</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Josh
Luthman [mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>]
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 19, 2008
8:55 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk"
target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] How hobbit
server deal with DNS server failure when doing conn test ?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=e><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pretty confident if the
DNS lookup fails it times out and marks the conn red =( If you don't need
it to do a DNS lookup simply add testip.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 3/19/08, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>T.J.
Yang</span></b> <<a href="mailto:tj_yang@hotmail.com" target="_blank">tj_yang@hotmail.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I remember somewhere in
the manpages,<br>
<br>
The hobbit server when doing fping conn test, it will try using FQDN and if<br>
not resolvable,<br>
it will use the ip address(from bb-hosts) file.<br>
<br>
Is this a correct statement ?<br>
<br>
I will summarize the answer here<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#How_does_the_conn_test_work_if_the_first_ping_doesn.27t_respond_.3F"
target="_blank">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#How_does_the_conn_test_work_if_the_first_ping_doesn.27t_respond_.3F</a><br>
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<br>
tj<br>
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