[Xymon] OK, this is weird VERY persistent red test

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 1/11/22 9:57 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:

> I changed the IP address of a gateway I was testing connectivity for.
>
> I'm showing a red test fail now... At the old IP address.
>
> I removed the gateway from the hosts.cfg file and restarted xymon
>
> the gateway went away as expected.
>
> I re-added the gateway with the new address.
>
> the gateway came back as expected.  On the next cycle the connection 
> test went red... With the old IP address.
>
> I used this command to clear the data
>
> ./server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop <gateway>"
>
> restart xymon
>
> test comes back red... With the old IP address?!
>
> My xymon installation is 4.3.30 built from source and it's been 
> running a VERY long time with very little issue.
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
>
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Thank you Kenneth for pointing out I needed to look at my local DNS.... 
I make changes this so VERY often that I'd forgotten about that.

It's now noted in my config files