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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That is the normal behavior, yes. Look into the testip argument for hosts.cfg if you want it to use the IP instead of DNS.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3@yahoo.co.uk]
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xymon 4.3.28<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">learned something new today!<br>
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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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">the xymon conn test continues to use the previous IP to ping against.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">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>
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Only when the DNS was updated did xymon then use the new IP for the conn test.<br>
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Who knew? (Well, not me bit I expect all you probably did! LOL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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