[hobbit] Error in bb-network.log

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Jan 24 22:36:46 CET 2005


On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:51:21AM +0100, Wim De Houwer wrote:
> I added the --trace option to the bbtest-net and it uses standard
> traceroute.  When I try to stop hobbit that traceroute (to a host that's
> down for the moment) keeps living. I remember some post where someone
> mentioned that it's more interesting to use mtr instead of the standard
> traceroute for obvious performance reasons.  Could this be the cause of
> my problem as well ?  How would i make hobbit use mtr instead of
> traceroute ?

I don't think it's the cause of your DNS problems - they are separate.

The command that bbtest-net runs to do a traceroute is determined by
the TRACEROUTE environment variable. So you can set this up in
~/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg, there is an example in the
hobbitserver.cfg man-page.


Henrik



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