[hobbit] How hobbit server deal with DNS server failure when doing conn test ?

[Josh Luthman]

So if it can not resolve DNS, is it yellow instead of red?

On 3/19/08, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:
>
>  Josh,
>
> I think the first statement is true.  I have many items monitored by
> hobbit which are not registered in DNS (I live with a bunch of windows
> centric team mates and they rely on WINS not DNS.   None of these items end
> up with conn=red, but they are ID'd in the output from bbtest on the hobbit
> server.  Here is that output:
>
> DNS statistics:
> # hostnames resolved  :      383
> # succesful           :      306
> # failed              :       77
> # calls to dnsresolve :      414
>
> Notice that I have 77 monitored items which fail the DNS lookup.
>
>       .....Bruce
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:55 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] How hobbit server deal with DNS server failure
> when doing conn test ?
>
> Pretty confident if the DNS lookup fails it times out and marks the conn
> red =(  If you don't need it to do a DNS lookup simply add testip.
>
> On 3/19/08, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I remember somewhere in the manpages,
> >
> > The hobbit server when doing fping conn test, it will try using FQDN and
> > if
> > not resolvable,
> > it will use the ip address(from bb-hosts) file.
> >
> > Is this a correct statement ?
> >
> > I will summarize the answer here
> >
> >
> > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#How_does_the_conn_test_work_if_the_first_ping_doesn.27t_respond_.3F
> >
> >
> > tj
> >
> >
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