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[Ward, Martin]

All,

I have followed the last couple of ghostlist threads with interest as I
am having problems in that area, but naturally enough my problems seem
to be completely different.

I have servers listed in the ghostlist web page that most definitely are
in my bb-hosts file. The name is the same as is the IP address:

>From the Ghostlist webpage:
ivp0.lon.dcn.colt.net	10.44.107.59	0:52	 

>From bb-hosts:
# grep ivp0 bb-hosts
10.44.107.59    ivp0.lon.dcn.colt.net   # ssh

This entry has been in bb-hosts for months and I have restarted the
Hobbit server a number of times since then, as recent as today in fact.
This server is definitely reporting back to Hobbit and I can see it in
the main Hobbit web pages. Here is the first few lines from its Info
page:
Hostname:	ivp0.lon.dcn.colt.net	
OS:	SunOS ivp0.lon.dcn.colt.net 5.10 Generic_127111-03 sun4u sparc
SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240	
Client S/W:		
IP:	10.44.107.59	

So this server is definitely in the config files, is reporting data
correctly and the Hobbit server is processing it, just for some reason
it's not processing ALL of it.

The ghostlist web page itself has 22 servers listed in it. Strangely
though, running the "bb localhost ghostlist" returns a much small list,
it only has seven entries and only the first one of them is in the list
that hobbit-ghosts.cgi produces. This first entry IS a valid ghost.

Can anyone off up suggestions as to why:
1) My ghostlist webpage list has such a large list of non-ghost servers.
2) Why the Hobbit ghost list doesn't match the bb one?

Thanks for your time,

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