conn testing name not ip

[Jon Hittner]

I'm running hobbit 4.2 and noticed that the conn tests are not using the ip 
address listed in the bb-hosts files but instead seem to be doing an dns 
lookup on the name and attempting to ping the address in dns.   Is there any 
way to change this behavior?  I would like the address listed in the first 
field of the bb-hosts file to be the one fpinged for the conn test.

Jon