<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div><br><br>xymon 4.3.28</div><div><br></div><div>learned something new today!<br><br>We have a xymon client - lets call it FRED. FRED has its IP changed and so hosts.cfg is updated with the new IP.<br><br>BUT</div><div><br></div><div>the xymon conn test continues to use the previous IP to ping against.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems (my learning point!) that the conn test does NOT use the contents of hosts.cfg... but the dns resolution for the hostname (or at least primarily).<br><br>Only when the DNS was updated did xymon then use the new IP for the conn test.<br><br>Who knew? (Well, not me bit I expect all you probably did! LOL)</div><div><br></div><div>didds</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"></div></div></body></html>