[hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails

[doctor at makelofine.org]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:43:58 +0900, "Everett, Vernon"
<Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> wrote:
> This looks remarkably like the error we were experiencing.
> What are you running on?
> 
> Do you have the case where all the network tests - ping, http, https, ftp
> etc. go purple?
> If so it might be the same.
> 
> With Henrik's assistance, we resolved it down to a problem with the ARES
> resolver.
> I changed our hobbitlaunch.cfg file to include the --no-ares option (see
> below), and we have never had the issue again.
> [bbnet]
>         ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>         NEEDS hobbitd
>         CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --no-ares
>         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
>         INTERVAL 5m 
> 
> (Of course this does come with a caveat. See bbtest-net man page in Xymon
> docs http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bbtest-net.1.html )
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> Cheers
>    V
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: doctor at makelofine.org [mailto:doctor at makelofine.org] 
> Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 3:34 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:24:29 +0100, "Lars Ebeling"
> <lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Johan Sjöberg" <johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se>
>> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:04 AM
>> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Two DNS lookups for a server but one fails
>> 
>> 
>> This night, after installing the new bbtest-net, we received an alarm 
>> on bbtest for the Xymon server, saying " - Program crashed Fatal 
>> signal caught!"
>>>From hobbitlaunch.log: "2009-01-08 05:05:07 Task bbnet terminated by 
>>>signal 6"
>> 
>> /Johan
>> 
>> 
>> If the program crash, you should have a coredump. Run gdb on the 
>> coredump
> 
>> and post the result here, for Henrik to look at.
>> 
>> --
>> Regards
>> Lars Ebeling
>> 
>> http://leopg9.no-ip.org
>> Hobbithobbyist
>> 
>> "I am not young enough to know everything."
>> -- Oscar Wilde
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Same issue on my side, i used the new compiled bbtest-net using corrected
> dns.c All is OK, but i got same issue with same error message.
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Hi,

I had purple on all the net tests (ping,http, https...)
Your solution to use the --no-ares option is with the recompiled bbtest-net
or with the original one ? (in fact , your solution fix the DNS test
problem, or the massive purples one ?)