[Xymon] noping in bbhost still tries to resolve hostname.

[FORD Alan]

Hi all,

I am running xymon 4.2.3 and I have found that when I have an entry like this in bb-hosts

0.0.0.0       Blah # prefer noping http://www.stanwell.com

it will still try and resolve the hostname Blah

This is causing my /var/log/messages file to get heaps of these

Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving 'West10/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving 'Blah/A/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving 'West08/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving 'East06b/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Apr 15 12:56:18 ictmon02 named[26180]: network unreachable resolving 'Blah/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53

The xymon server is ictmon02, it is also a dns caching server which I have just enabled,
hence I spotted the above message for the first time.

Obviously the primary dns server was getting this error but probably ignoring it.

Is there a way to stop trying to resolve a hostname for a specific host/s??

Thanks

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