<html><body><p><font size="2">HI Ian,</font><br><br><font size="2">you can use the "testip" in hosts.cfg for that host to prevent the dns lookup.</font><br><font size="2">Or, if you want this as a general setting, add "--dns=ip" at the xymonnet section in tasks.cfg (no restart is needed).</font><br><br><font size="2">For details please check "man hosts.cfg" or "man xymonnet"</font><br><br><font size="2">HTH</font><br><br><font size="2">Norbert</font><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=4EBB09B0DFD05FB08f9e8a93df938690918c4EB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Ian Diddams via Xymon ---10/11/2018 01:46:34 PM---xymon 4.3.28 learned something new today!"><font size="2" color="#424282">Ian Diddams via Xymon ---10/11/2018 01:46:34 PM---xymon 4.3.28 learned something new today!</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon@xymon.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Xymon Mailing List <xymon@xymon.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">10/11/2018 01:46 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[Xymon] client change of IP...</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">"Xymon" <xymon-bounces@xymon.com></font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><div align="right" dir="RTL"><font size="2" color="#800080"><br>----- Message from Ian Diddams <didds3@yahoo.co.uk> on Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:26:14 +0000 (UTC) -----</font></div><div align="right"><table dir="RTL" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top"><td width="60" valign="middle"><div align="left" dir="RTL"><b>To:</b></div></td><td width="296" valign="middle"><div align="right" dir="RTL">Xymon Mailing List <xymon@xymon.com></div></td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td width="60" valign="middle"><div align="left" dir="RTL"><b>Subject:</b></div></td><td width="296" valign="middle"><div align="right" dir="RTL">client change of IP...</div></td></tr></table></div><div align="right" dir="RTL"></div><font size="1" face="Arial"><br><br>xymon 4.3.28</font><br><br><font size="1" face="Arial">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</font><br><br><font size="1" face="Arial">the xymon conn test continues to use the previous IP to ping against.</font><br><br><font size="1" face="Arial">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)</font><br><br><font size="1" face="Arial">didds</font><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>Xymon mailing list<br>Xymon@xymon.com<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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