[hobbit] Creating hosts to monitor, do not resolve hostname
Henrik Stoerner
henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Oct 4 07:33:46 CEST 2007
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:27:21PM -0400, Josh Luthman wrote:
> While I have found it is close to identical - something that my BB did not
> do was resolve hostnames and monitor those addresses resolved. I was always
> able to monitor the IP address and the hostname acted as a host identifier,
> nothing more. I have a lot of "fake" hostnames that are catching wildcards
> on domains that are resolving to undesired IP addresses.
Add a "testip" tag on these hosts in the bb-hosts file. Or if you want
this to cover all hosts, edit the hobbitlaunch.cfg file and add the
--dns=ip option to the bbtest-net command.
Regards,
Henrik
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