depends & conn test

[Daniel Bourque <dbourque (at) weatherdata.com>]

Hi,

   I've looked up the list archive and there doesn't seem to be any 
answer to this problem, the "depends" doesn't work with the "conn" test.

   I have a bunch of remote kiosks connected via vpn and other means. 
Some I can ping and some I can't. I can always ssh to them, therefore 
ssh is the main connectivity test for all them.

   I'm trying make those test dependent on our internet connection.

  In my bb-hosts file, I've added www.yahoo.com as a host and added  
depends=(ssh:www.yahoo.com/conn)  to the kiosk machine definition in the 
bb-hosts file.

  In order to test that, I setup hosts foo and bar in my lab, defined 
the,as follow:

x.x.x.x foo
x.x.x.x bar # ssh noconn depends=(ssh:foor/conn)


I unplug foo and bar's network cable, and sometimes later I get a page 
regarding the ssh on bar

interestingly, bar's ssh test history shows this:

Tue Oct 09 16:43:25 2007 red 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:43:25_2007>0:00:43 

Tue Oct 09 16:43:15 2007 clear 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:43:15_2007>0:00:10 

Tue Oct 09 16:38:20 2007 red 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:38:20_2007>0:04:55 

Tue Oct 09 16:38:15 2007 clear 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:38:15_2007>0:00:05 

Tue Oct 09 16:34:16 2007 red 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:34:16_2007>0:03:59 

Tue Oct 09 16:33:15 2007 clear 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:33:15_2007>0:01:01 

Tue Oct 09 16:29:07 2007 red 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:29:07_2007>0:04:08 

Tue Oct 09 16:28:12 2007 clear 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:28:12_2007>0:00:55
Tue Oct 09 15:55:20 2007 green 
<http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_15:55:20_2007>0:32:52


Anyone using the conn test as a dependency out there ? Can anyone 
confirm that is does or does NOT work ?

Thanks

-Dan