Re: [hobbit] Changing Hobbit IP Address

[henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:36:45AM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
> 
> I've swapped the IP Address of the machines (so that all of the clients 
> do not have to be touched), rebooted and verified that the Hobbit 
> machine is in fact the new address.
> -----
>  Sun Oct 23 10:33:00 2005 conn NOT ok
> 
> Service conn on hobbit1 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
> 
> 
> System unreachable for 13 poll periods (3623 seconds)
> 
> red 172.17.0.13 is unreachable
> -----
> 
> 172.17.0.13 is the old address, the new address is 172.17.1.50.  In 
> bb-hosts I have:
> 
> 172.17.1.50   hobbit1      # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd http://hobbit1/

Hobbit does a name loookup by default (DNS and the local hosts file). 
Perhaps it picks up the old IP address from /etc/hosts ?


Henrik