[hobbit] Hobbit doing DNS lookup instead of using bb-hosts address?

Daniel J McDonald dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com
Tue May 22 20:28:57 CEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 14:18 -0400, Hobbit User wrote:
> But it seems that if mail.subnet.net can
> be resolved to an IP address via DNS, Hobbit will use the registered
> address instead of the one in its own bb-hosts file.  So the test fails,
> which is exactly the point of having the tunnel.  So to use the tunnel, I
> have to use a bogus name.
> 
> Is this the correct behavior? 

Yes.
>  Am I missing something?
Yes.  testip.  When the ip and domain-name conflict, dns is used unless
the testip option is specified.

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com



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