[Xymon] Name instead of IP in hosts.cfg

[Thomas Eckert]

Hi Rolf,

you can use `0.0.0.0` as the IP to force a DNS-lookup in all cases. Some (all?) versions of Xymon require the `testip`-flag to prevent DNS-lookups for the conn test. Something like

0.0.0.0 host.tld # testip

should do the trick for you.

Note that `testip` is for the `conn`-check only — the http-check for instance does not honour it (but that’s what you want anyway).

Cheers
Thomas

> On 22 Sep 2016, at 12:34, Rolf Schrittenlocher <schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in the man-page I read:
> 
> "The format of an entry in the hosts.cfg file is as follows:
> 
>   IP-address hostname # tag1 tag2 ..."
> 
> is there a way to use
> "hostname hostname # ..." instead?
> Reason is monitoring a service where the IP often changes.
> 
> Thanks for help,
> Rolf
> 
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