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color=#0000ff size=2>Josh,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>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:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=618394314-19032008>DNS statistics:<BR> #
hostnames resolved : 383<BR> #
succesful
: 306<BR> #
failed
: 77<BR> # calls to dnsresolve
: 414<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Notice that I have 77 monitored items which fail the DNS
lookup.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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.....Bruce</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 19, 2008
8:55 AM<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] How hobbit
server deal with DNS server failure when doing conn test ?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>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.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 3/19/08, <B class=gmail_sendername>T.J. Yang</B>
<<A href="mailto:tj_yang@hotmail.com">tj_yang@hotmail.com</A>>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">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">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><BR><BR>tj<BR><BR><BR>To
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