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

[Phil Crooker]

Have you tried using a bogus IP address?


>>> On 4/15/2011 at 12:35 PM, in message
<EB370D01A988C44B8A093001DB472DA728C59581 at DC1EXCMBX01.STANWELL.com>,
FORD Alan
<Alan.FORD at stanwell.com> wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
>
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