Re: [hobbit] Hobbit DNS queries

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

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:14:01AM +0200, Darren.Cotton (at) ses-astra.com wrote:
> I've modified hobbitlaunch.cfg and bb-hosts as follows:
> 
> [bbnet]
>         ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>         NEEDS hobbitd
>         CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --dns=ip
>         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
>         INTERVAL 5m
> 
> but using tcp dump I still see an excessive number of DNS queries some of
> which are causing errors in my firewall

Any http checks in your bb-hosts file ? These will use DNS, regardless
of --dns=ip or testip settings. If you don't want that, use the
"http://www.foo.com=1.2.3.4/"; syntax (see bb-hosts(5)).

Also, hosts with an IP of "0.0.0.0" (or other invalid IP adresses) will
trigger a DNS lookup.


Regards,
Henrik