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

[Hobbit User]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 14:28, Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks.  Works like a charm.  Is there doc on that?  The bb-hosts manpage
refers to testip functionality only when stating that the http tests
ignore it.  My perusing of the list archives seemed to indicate that
Hobbit used the bb-hosts IP address unless it was 0.0.0.0, in which case
it did a lookup.  Which makes more sense to me than the actual behavior of
having to tag the line to get the IP address on it to be used for
anything.