[hobbit] Re: Conn test problems

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Thu Jan 10 17:00:45 CET 2008


That third hop is denying ICMP echoes to you.  Is it a router of your own or
is it outside your network?  If you'd be willing to share that destination
with us at least I would be willing to traceroute it from my location to
help see if it is an issue at your end or not.

On 1/10/08, Michael A. Price <mprice at sgt-inc.com> wrote:
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>  Yes….
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> Its weird,  from the shell#. I can trace route to the host if its up in 3
> HOPS. But if the host is offline, it does 2 HOPS and then 28 more blank
> lines of stars. Not sure why it doesn't just time out after 3 HOPS, it takes
> a couple minutes to time out.
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> That's what my problem is, so I removed the trace option to my hosts. Any
> help would be great…
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> Thanks, michael
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:32 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Re: Conn test problems
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> Michael,
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> Were you the one that couldn't traceroute to the host via the shell?
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> Josh
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> On 1/9/08, *Michael A. Price* < mprice at sgt-inc.com> wrote:
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> My 'ping test completed' goes through the roof if my #trace tag is in the
> monitoring field and the host is down…
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> It keeps trying to trace route and it times out..
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> Never found a fix..
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>  ------------------------------
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:55 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Re: Conn test problems
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> Has anyone else encountered issues like this?  Has anyone else encountered
> any similar issues with all the conn tests going haywire?
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> I figured I'd also post this information while "bumping" the email:
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> bbgen for Hobbit version 4.2.0
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> Statistics:
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>  Hosts               :   164
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>  Status messages     :   531
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>  Purple messages     :     0
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>  Pages               :     1
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> TIME SPENT
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> Event                                            Starttime          Duration
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> Startup                                  1199894029.525853                 -
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> Load links done                          1199894029.526327          0.000474
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> Load bbhosts done                        1199894029.531645
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>           0.005318
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> ACK removal done                         1199894029.531742          0.000097
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> Load STATE done                          1199894029.563429          0.031687
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> Color calculation done
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> 1199894029.563629          0.000200
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> Hobbit pagegen start                     1199894029.563659          0.000030
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> Hobbit pagegen done                      1199894029.573544          0.009885
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> BB2 generation done
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> 1199894029.576605          0.003061
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> BBNK generation done                     1199894029.577261          0.000656
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> Summary transmission done                1199894029.577265          0.000004
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> WML generation done
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> 1199894029.578793          0.001528
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> Run completed                            1199894029.578798          0.000005
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> TIME TOTAL                                                          0.052945
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> bbtest-net version
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> 4.2.0
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> SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
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> LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20327
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> Statistics:
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>  Hosts total           :      161
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>  Hosts with no tests   :        1
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>  Total test count      :      181
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>  Status messages       :      182
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>  Alert status msgs     :        0
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>  Transmissions         :        3
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> DNS statistics:
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>  # hostnames resolved  :       16
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>  # succesful           :       16
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>  # failed              :        0
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>  # calls to dnsresolve :       27
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> TCP test statistics:
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>  # TCP tests total     :       13
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>  # HTTP tests          :        5
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>  # Simple TCP tests    :        8
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>  # Connection attempts :       13
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>  # bytes written       :      780
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>  # bytes read          :    22792
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> TIME SPENT
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> Event                                            Starttime          Duration
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> bbtest-net startup                       1199893834.785076                 -
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> Service definitions loaded
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> 1199893834.787463          0.002387
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> Tests loaded                             1199893834.793085          0.005622
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> DNS lookups completed                    1199893834.883042          0.089957
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> Test engine setup completed
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> 1199893834.886789          0.003747
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> TCP tests completed                      1199893835.028904          0.142115
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> PING test completed (160 hosts)          1199893870.087696         35.058792
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> PING test results sent
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> 1199893870.090125          0.002429
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> Test result collection completed         1199893870.090173          0.000048
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> LDAP test engine setup completed         1199893870.090175          0.000002
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> LDAP tests executed
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> 1199893870.090177          0.000002
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> LDAP tests result collection completed   1199893870.090179          0.000002
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> NSLOOKUP tests executed                  1199893870.244778          0.154599
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> Test results transmitted
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> 1199893870.246478          0.001700
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> bbtest-net completed                     1199893870.248556          0.002078
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> TIME TOTAL                                                         35.463480
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> On 1/7/08, *Josh Luthman* <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> I've been getting a lot of these recently.  A lot of the time I'll get a
> good 3/4 of the hosts I'm monitoring like this, other days it is just one or
> two.  I can't seem to find any pattern to it.  I'm very confident it isn't
> network related as it happens to the first entry, Hobbit server.  I just
> can't imagine why it would have issues getting to 127.0.0.1!
>
> I was also under the impression that the ping test is done every 60s or
> 120s so these tests just can't be true positive results.
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> Poking around I also found that the test to my hobbit server (this is
> 127.0.0.1 mind you) went up in early December.
>
> Looking for any input at this point!
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> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>
>
>
>
> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>
>
>
>
> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>



-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
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