[hobbit] ping and traceroute
Rolf Schrittenlocher
Schrittenlocher at rz.uni-frankfurt.de
Thu Dec 21 08:26:28 CET 2006
Hi Dominique,
thanks! Read this page a dozen times (for other purposes) - a good
example for "you will see only what you expect" :-(
Rolf
> Rolf Schrittenlocher wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> this is an idea for a feature request. It would be nice if there
>> would happen a traceroute automatically if conn/ping fails. So the
>> result of traceroute could be displayed in addition to the negative
>> ping results and we would know if the problem is at in our net or
>> outside.
>>
>> Alternative: All standart tests of hobbit would allow to add scripts
>> to be executed once a test fails. So everyone can handle this as
>> (s)he likes.
>>
>> I wish all of you a silent pager the next days!
>> Rolf
>>
> This fearure is already available.
>
> ----Extract of bb-hosts man page----
> ...
> trace
> If the connectivity test fails, run a "traceroute" and
> include the output from this in the status message from
> the failed connectivity test. Note: For this to work,
> you may have to define the TRACEROUTE environment vari-
> able, see hobbitserver.cfg(5)
> ...
>
>
> Dominique
> UNIL - University of Lausanne
>
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