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color=#0000ff size=2>Try fping. I think Henrik has not had time
to fix problems with hobbitping. It may be one of those "it seemed a
good idea at the time" things...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>GLH</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Sebastian [mailto:spa@syntec.co.uk]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:08 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [hobbit] Problems with hobbitping when the
Network is unreachable (BUG)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Henrik,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I rebooted my hobbit server and it lost its default
gateway, unbeknown to me. The only symptoms of something wrong was a
purple in a network test is was supposed to be doing and a purple in the
server's bbtest column. Now, I reckon one or other or both of these
should have both gone red and not purple, and the reason that they did not is
due to hobbitping going into a spin: what looks like a fairly tight
loop. Hobbitping was using quite a lot of CPU (I saw it at well over
30%) and server/tmp/ping-stdout.1407 was empty but server/tmp/ping-stderr.5499
was getting many (about 60) "Failed to send ICMP packet: Network is
unreachable" written to it every second. I reckon this message should
have been in the report of the connection test it was trying to do (although
you could argue that the colour should be clear and not red, since one doesn't
want dozens of alarms for a problem that is actually on the network-test
server). It took me some time to figure out what was wrong because
hobbit didn't report this problem in any of its logs (presumably because
hobbitping never returned and so bbtest-net never returned its status) (and
hobbitd_client stopped working for some other reason (core dump) yesterday
and, although restarted, remains not reporting with nothing in the
logs).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sebastian </FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
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