[hobbit] trouble with name resolution

[Werner (Hobbit - list_ext)]

Larry,
	As default Hobbit does use ares resolver library. Maybe it's
having some trouble who your nslookup doesn't showup.

	You can play with two bbtest-net options, to help give a litle
more info on this issues...

-------<cut from man bbtest-net>----------------
       --no-ares
              Disable  the  ARES resolver built into bbtest-net. This makes bbtest-net resolve hostnames using your system resolver function. You should only use
              this as a last resort if bbtest-net cannot resolve the hostnames you use in the normal way (via DNS or /etc/hosts). One reason for using this would
              be if you need to resolve hostnames via NIS/NIS+ (a.k.a. Yellow Pages).
              The  system  resolver function does not provide a mechanism for controlling timeouts of the hostname lookups, so if your DNS or NIS server is down,
              bbtest-net can take a very long time to run. The --dns-timeout option is effectively disabled when using this option.

       --dnslog=FILENAME
              Log failed hostname lookups to the file FILENAME. FILENAME should be a full pathname.
-------<cut from man bbtest-net>----------------


	And you can play a litle with:
	cd ~server/bin
	"./bbcmd bbtest-net --debug ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov" 
	
	-wm
----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
From:    "Larry Barber" <lebarber at gmail.com>
To:      hobbit <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Date:    Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:52:09 -0500
Subject: [hobbit] trouble with name resolution
----

> I am having a problem getting "Unable to resolve hostname" errors for the conn test for names that are in our DNS system. The bb-hosts entry looks like:
> 
> <http://0.0.0.0>0.0.0.0     <http://ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov   # conn
> 
> the return from nslookup is:
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ nslookup <http://ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov
> Server:         <http://199.128.64.2>199.128.64.2
> Address:        199.128.64.2#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> <http://ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd2.wcm.ess.usda.gov   canonical name = <http://ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov.
> Name:   <http://ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov>ppd.wcm.ess.usda.gov
> Address: <http://199.134.228.6>199.134.228.6
> 
> Any ideas how to correct this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber